Again, Haiti. One of its surest exports is coffee, produced by pèti plantè and sold increasingly under Fair Trade policies, which means that small farmers theoretically earn a fair price for what they sell. Everything is disrupted now and under a state of extreme emergency. At this point, I can't add much more about the situation beyond what's all over the news. Most Haitians already lived in complete poverty before the quake. My heart goes out to them.
Here's a not entirely unrelated question for the longterm. In what year do you suppose people will say, "I remember when coffee only cost $10 per cup"?
Today's Rune: The Mystery Rune. Photo by Julius Schorzman, 2005.
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I once visited Haiti. I don't know why. As the plane circled Port au Prince, I swear, that in the hilly countryside, I saw volcano cones....But that was probably just some sort of premontion.
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I doubt as long as coffee is grown manually and not produced by an abundance of mechanization that it will go that high unless of course you count Cliche coffees triple mocha jokka javva carp which is almost there now.
100,000 estimated dead. Just boggles the mind.
Erik, it's such a sad situation. Thanks for reminding me of where my luxury comes from!
i haven seen much haitian coffee up here. but what is going on there is simply tragic and this country must do what it can
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