MUGGED: Poverty in Your Coffee Cup
- Author:
- Oxfam
- Publisher:
- Oxfam
- Publication Date:
- 1 January 2000
- Tags:
- Africa, Trade, Food and Agriculture, Environment
There is a crisis destroying the livelihoods of 25 million coffee producers around the world. The price of coffee has fallen by almost 50 per cent in the past three years to a 30-year low. Farmers sell at a heavy loss while branded coffee sells at a hefty profit. The coffee crisis has become a development disaster whose impact will be felt for a long time.
