ah. titans night symphony for the world. in 45 minutes on d w. w's crime fighters are back with africa's most successful radio drama series continues only this odes are available online and of course you can share and discuss on t.w. africa's facebook page and other social media platforms crime fighters to me and now. coffee is a staple for many a habit is even a ritual and it's getting cheaper all the time. so european row stars are making bigger and bigger profits arning more and more money from coffee and the small farmers in africa who produce the coffee are getting less and less. shipping rule coffee beans has

a high carbon footprint that's reviving interest in traditional transportation methods to speak obviously but yes money changed arts with a small group of people who others dismisses dreamers and then. is it even possible to change the $1000000000.00 coffee business. model that we're doing something no one's ever done before its many coffee love is eager to do more to support fair trade. nico but if it normally would and if it encapsulate today however the 29 year old is gearing up for a competition and she's a bit nervous. nicole is about this stuff a professional who knows the ins and outs of a good cup of brew she has his sights set on. being crowned world champion at

berlin's world of coffee trade fair. job unthinkable i think you have to be a bit crazy to do something like this but coffee is simply part of my life the biggest part actually. which is why she's interested in everything to do with coffee including how it's produced and transported and above all who makes money from it and who doesn't. i meant that with any other product we always want to know every detail right down to the name of the cow before we buy a carton of milk and stop sometimes we don't have that option with coffee at all because 95 percent of the market is dominated by a very opaque trading system and. coffee is traded on stock exchanges which is why the purchase price for green coffee beans fluctuates constantly. as these yahoos by both consumers don't even know that world coffee prices in 200-1000 were at rock bottom for farmers they go to the supermarket buy their beans and think that

everything is normal. about you have to tell them more check what you're buying ask questions look at the package if there's no information on it how do you know what you're buying it and what does it all. the 1000000000 batiste is deeply involved in the fight for more transparency in the coffee business but today she's also vying for the title of the world's best coffee creation. nicole has already won several awards at the german barista championships now she's competing in a completely new category coffee in good spirits. the challenge is to create the best mix of coffee and alcohol nikolas ambitious and bones to trump the competition. the fair brings together thousands of specialists from. all over the world.

coffee is a hot commodity and a huge business one that this man from berlin wants to change. the sound it could sing it aims to revolutionize coffee production from planted see to gross to being everything should remain in the hands of the produces as they say he's trying to win over his supporters. here we can get very close to the coffee experts and the consumers it's just fun pouring the coffee and getting the feedback. there is a bit of a back story to how he got here. 4 years ago some other discovered his passion for african coffee today he's an expert on this subject it takes 9 months before a crop can be harvested. for. the speech to the main thing is to pick only the red buds the greens should stay on they need a few more days that's why it has to be done by hand.

you could make our coffee co-operative is nestled in the hills of northern rwanda from here that exports coffee to europe. he wants to vastly improve on the methods of big name competitors he and his business partner alan the biro were roommates back in berlin today they working to create better jobs for people in new wonder. so. many of the young people. interested in getting into coffee business because their incomes in the coffee business are too low so it's our goal to change this narrative to make sure that you know. people who are involved in the coffee value chain better incomes and that will attract young people to come. walk into

a coffee business. well coffee farm is wages have fallen in recent years the coffee industry sales have been increasing over the last 2 decades companies have managed to find ways to sell coffee at ever higher prices mainly in the form of capsules and pods. but wholesale prices have seen address to drop. some other and want to make the coffee trade fair like it did a clinic our coffee cooperative is their ideal partner the farmers here are independent entrepreneurs the cooperative pays good prices and a very special feature here women lot of the benefits. and that's thanks to under leak of a casey she's been working in the coffee industry all her life and sells different varieties of coffee. southern and allen with a missing piece of the puzzle for her vision.

that women coffee was. brewing in me in my head every time and. when we met i said the wow name the even if women coffee made berry have to discuss it with the men about it with. yeah. although coffee production is physically hard work it's usually done by women but when it comes to pay and making the important decisions men usually still have the say in parliament we have a big number of women but to me coffee in the coffee business is somehow different because we have a bigger number of women. in the family processing but in the position of frame of the season of this season making we have much more number of women on those kind of was he said. so it's why you have to empower women.

should eat at teeth is a good example she finds her own 80 coffee trees and has a demanding daily routine to get everything done. once i've taken the coffee beans to the cooperative i go home and look after the children you. heard i make them something to eat and send one child to school for afternoon classes and then i take care of the household that way i can get all my work done. 'd so much to. me during the during. the work is meet once a week to discuss financial issues or work out how best to support each other they also make crafts which brings in extra income in addition to the coffee. many of the older workers lived through the genocide in rwanda 25 years ago and many lost

family members land and work united there working for a better future. it will mean has many activities to do at home they must to have. something i mean from that's activity so that she got to come visit the demand because there's something which is. coming in the family from the time she's not around at all. harvesting is a painstaking process. after the coffee cherries are picked they have to be washed . the women in the co-operative earn twice as much as other coffee farmers in rwanda the profits are distributed evenly and. ok now we're going into a very orderly process. well the bins where the bins are going to get

out of the house the process is god forbid. i the red husks are used by the farm is as fertiliser. as you can because this is where the coffee beans go after the cherry has been discarded and they've been washed and fermented and then when they're wet you can clearly see which beings are good and which aren't and then they have to be sorted again by hand which you've been. angelica has developed her own coffee brand with and alan engine leaks finest the brand and the company both belong to the women in the co-operative. i. think that.

connects the coffee beans have to dry so dell spread out on wooden wrecks for at least 15 days. but. this is by no means the last step in the production of finest the next undertaken by the women's corporative is a very special one. making the transportation of coffee more environmentally friendly is a big goal and nothing symbolizes that goal more than that of one tour. it's the key to achieving a truly sustainable product chain. captain you akim everything has been fairing goods across the oceans for many years this time it's 1000 sacks a fair trade coffee from central america.

to make it so small it doesn't i've seen it's great that i can participate in such a project as a sailor i have few opportunities to use my professional qualifications in meaningful projects. normally when i work on a ship are all burning over your land carrying goods that i don't really want to transport it simply different here that's why i'm so glad i can work here was made up by. the i'm going to a transports it's called is in the same way as our ancestors did nowadays coffee normie arrives in europe from the world's coffee growing regions by container ship . why would i want to on site with a government or we want to set an example and underscore that it's possible to transport cargo with low emissions. in addition we want to question whether it's really necessary to ship so many goods halfway around the world just to consume the

mirror and whether we might be able to rethink it all and transport less all the biggest. emissions standards of the type on german roads are virtually non-existent at sea container ship transportation is very cheap but extremely harmful to the environment in addition to c o 2 the world's merchant fleets emit huge clown's of nitrogen dioxide particulate matter and soft dioxide. the environmental impact of assailing face here on the other hand is largely negligible. as it is that it's very much we only use the engine when it's necessary to maneuver or for safety reasons we do not use it to get somewhere faster if there is no wind we simply wait. with all the stuff that is the crew is at sea for 3 courses of the year.

quit his job as a social worker to join the crew. was the most this is what's most fun sail down sail up steering hoisting tacking that's my job you're on board. the majority of the crew works unpaid in exchange for learning how to sail they also want to support a movement to change global trade. change starts with a small group of people who others dismisses dreamers. and we don't mind being perceived as such. but increasingly people are starting to take us more seriously. is cell powered freight transport really a viable alternative for the future most shipping companies both at the risks. they all have the deadline pressure everything has to be somewhere at a certain time and nobody has the time to wait for the goods to arrive a little later nowadays everything has to be delivered just in time. for that.

but everything is slowly getting underway when power is say it's an expensive feel researchers are looking for ways to combine both in a hybrid vessels that will be able to sailing goodwin's and use their engine in calm conditions the oven to it can transport 114 tons of cargo on this run it's mainly coffee and cocoa the hold is located 3 meters deep in the ship's belly. something to get to our load we have to climb through this little hatch up here. we have about a 1000 sacks of coffee on board and my chief mate checks on the load every day and that's important so it doesn't get down. to see if any moisture is accumulated somewhere or if the cargo. slipped which can happen if the ship lurches violently

as they have to. be evan to voyage has covered over 18000 nautical miles now the crew is nearing hand. coffee a fashionable drink from far away. most of the wrist and the callbacks effect is passionately committed to good fair trade coffee she says that's why she would gladly pay a higher price for her brew. but instead when i go into a shop to buy coffee i would say that a kilo of coffee should never cost less than $20.00 euros. the states also money from coffee regardless of whether it's a luxury brand or cheap stuff from the supermarket fighting and what's not in germany there is a roasting tax which we all pay and that is to euro's 19 that is a huge amount so there's no way that half a kilo can cost $399.00 families sign. the cheaper the coffee the less remains

after tax for production and transportation but right now because main concern is to make it to the final. first i think the biggest challenge will be to avoid any mistakes not to knock anything over not to forget what i'm saying context and not to tremble and controllable interests we want yeah those are the 3 things that always happen just by talking to you thank. you very sorry. she's got 10 minutes just struck her stuff this time she's mixing filter coffee with butter rum and not a concoction designed to taste like caramel candy. it's important that the taste of coffee remains dominant enough in the finished drink over the next hours the judges will sample coffee creations from 80 contestants.

i think. it's got. to do wonders coffee is among the best in africa 400000 people work in this sector. the capital kigali is the main transportation hub for exports. silva and alan are breaking new ground as coffee traders in rwanda roasting the beans in the country of production rather than in europe in the coffee world that is still a rare exception. but let's start we're starting the roasting in-house the beams are refined roasted packed and prepared for export here in kigali we aren't spending any rabin's from africa to europe going all ways with us. this way the profits from the refining process stay in rwanda.

after all the manual processing the roasted coffee is ready for export it's available to buy in a german drugstore chain a kilo costs at least 23 year round. the export of a high quality finished product to europe is a boon for the region it creates new jobs and the profits stay in africa. it's one way to combat poverty and economic migration. from the oven tour is transporting unroasted green coffee it's a roma does not fade on the long voyage now the ship is almost at its destination. yeah i forgot to give you i'm really very excited i was born and raised in hamburg and have been out and about at sea for 9 months because i find it really special to return home on board the aventura under sail. i know how much wood so called.

the aventura is welcomed by 200 volunteers friends and family. they all believe that sailing ships can revolutionize the way it's a transport it. spoke a man who launched the whole project is here to welcome the crew without him none of them would be here. but. that doesn't mean you wouldn't make a. buck a month spent his life at sea and has seen what burning heavy oil does to the environment to change that he founded the company to the coast. it's possible to use all of your we transport cleanly and we treat everyone in this chain fairly the

farmers get a reasonable price and by the way the customers don't pay more than they do for coffee the comes by container ship the price of the same only the profits are not so big that's clear and everyone in the chain shoulders the cost equally including the environmental aspects of. famine pullman is one of the custom is she is owed it 20 tons of coffee from mexico mainly theoretical variety but also a few bags of robust. his company is called thai king a japanese with that means community. german consume is deal directly with coffee from is in mexico sharing responsibility for the harvest. time payment policies are also unusual the coffee farmers who work for the company receive the money in advance and get a higher rate than is paid for goods bearing the fair trade.

typee imports 20 tons of coffee from full farm is and one cooperative in mexico it aims to double the amount each year in 89 years 500 small farmers in mexico could supply coffee 225-0000 households in germany. so far he has only imported the coffee now that found his son is opening the 1st time he café in hamburg. oh things we have a very special treat for your birthday. that looks like the oven to it is and it was. designed i created the initial design and then our own came and said dad it looks fine but it's not really contemporary so i said ok you take over and i'm handing it all over to you of course i'm learning from it too

how can i use the founder of the whole project take a step back that's the biggest challenge. when he goes there was follow. he and his to the principles of solidarity in agriculture consumers in germany order their coffee from farmers in mexico and the organization media it's a whole thing it doesn't make a profit. when they offer the nonprofit new funds for the term nonprofit is often misunderstood nonprofit does not mean no pay for those admissions kind of. so just as we pay each farmer according to his needs and that is our 1st priority we also ask the sailors and the roasters and the staff here in the cafe. a coffee i was on one and you didn't like it so the basic principle in the thai key cosmos wherever we want to establish the model is that every employee is paid according to his or her. needs. a lot and that we can all

meet on an equal level no matter which continent we live on the good ones. the green cafes concept includes ditching the usual can't budo plastic coffee to go cups here they made of biscuit and can be consumed immediately. as a vendor and so if you don't want to eat your coffee mug which is made from delicious biscuit you can of course throw it away and it will decompose much faster than any paper cup or anything else on the market of. the telling he couldn't handle a steadily advancing their vision of bringing more solidarity to the world of coffee. thanks. but at the bill in trade fair the focus is still on big business.

how the south and anjali cole said their with their ideas for more equitable world trade. and you see john. and explain this would not be under a grandson because the white nuns in france. brought that spread just by women in the house and we hope that angela finest will become a product that spreads beyond rwanda and that it gives other women's cooperatives from uganda peru colombia all of which already exist access to the market and thus to significantly higher prices higher wages and a bigger share of the profits. meanwhile nicole bass of health is waiting for the results of the. her coffee creations have made it into the top 10. i. 6 in the world.

company once a luxury reserved for the rich today it's largely taken for granted with little awareness of its actual. consumers need to pay a fair price for the coffee they enjoy to ensure that those who produces get a fair way.

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