Recently
I happened to see the CNN Freedom
project documentary titled, “Cocoanomics”.
It was compelling stuff about the life and conditions of Coffee
plantation farmers living in Ivory Coast (the equatorial country that produces
almost 40% of the world’s coffee bean). The featured documentary talked about
the labor-intensive nature of the industry, the diseased and aging coffee
plants as well as the issue of child labor. One of the most dis-believing part
of this documentary was the fact that these coffee growers have had never
tasted the chocolate before.
This
was a good trigger point for me to write about the life of a coffee grower and
so started doing the research. Many ideas and articles popped up that got me
thinking as to where and how should I begin. Well most of the ideas (if not
all) emerge from your backyard and so I decided to begin at the end of coffee value chain (i.e. Us) and work
all the way upwards to the start of this value chain (i.e. the Coffee Grower). I have decided to split this into couple
of blog posts mainly because of the length of the post.
This is all that I have gathered as part of my
research so far and will be using to draft my posts.
Do read the post, "Coffee or Cup" that follows this post to get your dose of caffeine.
Khushboo
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