Article: Coffee with Conscience Perks Interest.

By Maureen Wallenfang, The Post-Crescent, Appleton, Wis. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 21--A cup of coffee isn't necessarily just a cup of coffee.

If its beans are labeled "Fair Trade Certified," it might also be the means by which a coffee farmer somewhere in the world rises above poverty, sends his children to school and pays for health care.

The term means the product -- in this case coffee, but also cocoa, tea, sugar and bananas -- has been purchased through cooperatives that reduce the number of middlemen and return dividends to farmers, assuring them a living wage.

Tadesse Meskela, general manager of the Oromia ...

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