Today doesn’t allow much time for writing. The student newspaper has just taken delivery of three shiny new computers and between that and our Finance Committee meeting this afternoon, I’m feeling busy.
Via supradeluxe’s fair trade coffee blog I spotted this report. It seems that the World Bank is getting in on the Fair Trade act (nice timing guys) and the report contains some pretty stark figures on the crisis in the global coffee market. The pressure on richer governments to reduce their agricultural subsidies has long been present, but when a body like the World Bank makes statements such as: