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Just coffee in an unjust world

Amy Frykholm

May 29, 2024 |

The Christian Century |

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Response Location: Mexico, Agua Prieta, Sonora

Café Justo offers an alternative model to traditional fair-trade operations, keeping the entire means of coffee production in the farmers’ hands. They connect the farmer directly to the consumer, eliminating the need for people in the middle who would often gather up the profits. In Salvador Urbina, the Café Justo cooperative has about 80 farming families and sends out more than 1,000 pounds of coffee a month.

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