Access to global marketplace will sustain small coffee grower

E Anthony Wayne
Jamaica Observer

You might be reading this in the morning over a warm cup of coffee.

In the United States, that's a pretty common routine. As the world's largest importer of coffee, we wind up drinking a lot of it from many areas of the world. Even as the United States imports more coffee, we are aware that many coffee-producing countries are suffering from the lowest world prices for coffee in recent memory. Though the price of coffee for sale in the United States has risen markedly since the early 1990s, the average grower has seen his income reduced by more than half during this same period.

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