Monday, May 19, 2003


coffee crisis summit today

a big confab took place in london today about the world-price depression known as the coffee crisis. an important coffee organization, the i.c.o., held a meeting with various groups to try to form more concrete courses of action in the search for a solution.

frankly, i think all suggested approaches should be tried -- funds for farmers to diversify, support funds, a new form of coffee market, ethical initiatives by consumers and charities, new structures in the producing countries themselves, broad efforts to increase demand, coffee purity laws to raise the quality of what can be grown and exported, all that.

and long-time readers know i have come to believe that the u.s.a. must rejoin the i.c.o. and pass our own coffee purity laws.

anyway, it's a nice summation. there will be another meeting i understand this autumn. . .

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