Submitted by flossielemon on April 30, 2008

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Coffee

The importance coffee has on the global economy, human rights, and the environmental quality and biodiversity of the tropics is not widely recognized, especially in developed countries where coffee consumption is so far removed from coffee production. In the United States it is common to incorrectly assume that something as seemingly inconsequential as a cup of coffee would have little effect on such important global issues.
Coffee is the second most traded commodity on the planet, the first being petroleum. Coffee production is a multibillion dollar industry, supporting roughly 25 million small farmers growing on over 11 million hectares. The importance of the income generated...

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