Is Bird-Friendly Coffee Fair to Latin American Farmers?

With so many of our favorite stores and big-name coffee-houses offering Fair Trade Coffees that signal living wages and safe working conditions, and even some with additional environmental certifications, you'd think these coffees would amount to more than 2% of what's out there. Guess not. A lot of farmers are struggling to hold onto the ideal, while everyone else catches up.

Here's a link to an article that lays out some of the issues confronted by the families who belong to a growing cooperative in Chanmagua, Guatemala.

"Farmers Question Value of Responsible Coffee" (Reuters)