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Why Fair Trade Has Failed Coffee Producers

Price, quality, convenience, and brand-familiarity

Potential fix: pin the price of fair trade to quality valuations

 Supplemental information:The Central Dogma of Coffee

Don't think about money flowing from consumer to producer

How I've been trained and how I train others

[S4:E7] Coffee News Report

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