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Remember! It is Sidama not Sidamo!!

 

 It is Sidama coffee, Not Sidamo coffee!

Action: Send emails to all those who use the wrong name, Sidamo Coffee, including Starbucks!

Email addresse: ukinfo@starbucks.com

See also Starbuck UK's Corporate Social Responsibility Statement

Sidama Land - Coffee Economics, Politics and Poverty

October 2007 - Over the last two centuries many countries of the world have developed at a breakneck speed. However, after half a century of decolonization, Africa still remains the darkest continent and the majority of its people still live under abject poverty. [Read More]

Oxfam America: Coffee Show Brings Fair Trade Producers and Buyers Together

20 April 2006 - Coffee cooperatives from around the world sent their representatives to Charlotte, North Carolina earlier this month to attend the Specialty Coffee Association of America conference, the biggest annual gathering of specialty coffee industry insiders in North America. [Read More]

Sidama Coffee Zone

Alemayu Adola should be happy—his coffee plants are flourishing and this year he will have a good harvest. The rains came when they were supposed to come, there has been no frost or hail, and neither coffee berry disease nor coffee wilt disease have affected his crop. Best of all—coffee prices are rising. The bad news is that maize prices are sky high. [Read More]

                                         

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