{"id":5354,"date":"2016-02-01T16:15:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T16:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5354"},"modified":"2016-01-30T19:35:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T19:35:47","slug":"linked-the-craft-coffee-trend-its-pricey-but-farmers-arent-getting-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/02\/01\/linked-the-craft-coffee-trend-its-pricey-but-farmers-arent-getting-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;The craft coffee trend: it&#8217;s pricey, but farmers aren&#8217;t getting rich&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5225,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.theguardian.com\\\/sustainable-business\\\/2014\\\/oct\\\/16\\\/chocolate-coffee-fair-trade-certification-price-ebola-starbucks-ghana-philippines-ecuador&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.theguardian.com\\\/sustainable-business\\\/2014\\\/oct\\\/16\\\/chocolate-coffee-fair-trade-certification-price-ebola-starbucks-ghana-philippines-ecuador&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sustainable-business\/2014\/oct\/16\/chocolate-coffee-fair-trade-certification-price-ebola-starbucks-ghana-philippines-ecuador\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via The Guardian:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt was amazing to me that you\u2019d have coffee selling for $80 a pound in Japan and yet the farmer was only making $4 a pound,\u201d he said. \u201cAs a guy who didn\u2019t come from that industry I couldn\u2019t get away from the fact that coffee is worth more now than it\u2019s ever been, there\u2019s more consumption of and more demand for coffee than ever in history, and yet the farmers are in some cases making less per pound than it costs them to produce.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great article about the commodity of coffee and keeping prices high or low while farmer wages don\u2019t reflect what we\u2019re paying per pound. Unfortunately, the margins won\u2019t be changing so:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Both Askinosie and Giuliano point to the need to educate the consumer market and push retail prices up further, too. \u201cOne thing everyone agrees on in coffee is that it\u2019s too cheap,\u201d Giuliano said. \u201cAnd no consumer feels that way. The $20 bag of coffee from Blue Bottle is probably, in the long term, an unsustainably low price.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you\u2019re fighting for equal pay to the people growing and harvesting beans, expect your per-pound price to go way up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via The Guardian: \u201cIt was amazing to me that you\u2019d have coffee selling for $80 a pound in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T02:02:54Z","apple_news_api_id":"1067408d-1689-4320-9daa-96e4f8d115b0","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T02:02:54Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AEGdAjRaJQyCdqpbk-NEVsA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[144,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-coffee","7":"category-linked","8":"cs-entry","9":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1om","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3548,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/with-coffee-the-price-of-individualism-can-be-high\/","url_meta":{"origin":5354,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 &#8220;With Coffee, the Price of Individualism Can Be High&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"February 8, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"via NYTimes: For example, the Nespresso Arpeggio costs $5.70 for 10 espresso capsules, while the Folgers Black Silk blend for a K-Cup brewed-coffee machine is $10.69 for 12 pods. 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