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Kuma Coffee has become the first coffee roaster in Seattle to issue a transparency statement regarding its coffee buying and to publicly disclose how much it paid per pound for all the beans in its inventory — part of a growing movement away from Fair Trade-certified coffee and toward a model called direct trade that many roasters say benefits coffee farmers more.
There have been questions about Fair Trade coffee for years, and they have grown more pointed as spikes in commodity coffee prices mean that some farmers who pay to be Fair Trade certified are now getting more money for coffee sold on the regular commodities market.
"The Coffee City blog with the Seattle times brings together two of my favourite things: transparency and coffee. Yay!
