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Article: Larger Coffee Farmers Excluded from Fair Trade Label Despite Good Records.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- September 11, 2002
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By Bradley Meacham, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 11--MATAGALPA, Nicaragua--The 200 workers at Eddy and Mausi Kuhl's coffee farm are paid living wages and have homes with electricity, running water and concrete floors. They help make decisions about the operation of the 560-acre farm, and their 400 dependents receive benefits, including an on-site school and health clinic.
To their neighbors, many living in shacks pieced together from scrap wood and mud, those conditions probably sound like a good deal. Yet for all the benefits the Kuhls provide their workers, they cannot sell their coffee with the Fair Trade label ...