coffee is a staple for many a habit is even a ritual and it's getting cheaper all the time. the european roasters 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. 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. we're doing something no one's ever done before. many coffee lovers are eager to do more to support fairtrade. new car but if it normally works in a bed and cafe 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. you don't think of it 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. buy and 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. 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 yachts 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 $1000000000.00 stuff 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 called feet in good spirits. the

challenge is to create the best mix of coffee and alcohol we call this ambitious and wants to trump the competition. with. 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. some other kids in aims to revolutionize coffee production from planted see to roasted beans everything should remain in the hands of the produces the day he's trying to win over 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 sow

they 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. this beastie 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 of. did you can make our coffee cooperative 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 are working to create jobs for people in new wonder. so. many of the young people. interested in getting into the business

because their incomes in the coffee business are too low so it's our goal to achieve 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 back into 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 pots. but wholesale prices have seen a drastic drop. and alan once you make the coffee trade fair like you did you could make our coffee cooperative is the ideal partner the families here are independent entrepreneurs the cooperative pays good prices. a very special feature

here women ripple loss of the benefits. and that's thanks to cover 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 time women coffee was. brewing in the in my head every time and. when we met i said a while in the even if it's a women coffee maybe i have to discuss it with the men about it with me but. 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 any coffee in the coffee business is somehow different

because we have a big number of women. in farming processing but in our position of frame of the season of this season making we have much more number of women in those kind of resistance so it's why we have to empower women to. look and choose either team is a good example she found her own 80 coffee trees and has a demanding daily routine to get everything done. the overworld local go on with your mood i once i've taken a coffee beans to the cooperative i go home and look after the children. 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. littering the room. the workers meet once

a week to discuss financial issues or work out how best to support each other ringback 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 mend has many activities to do at home they must to have. something i mean from that's activity so that she can come visit the man because this is something which is. coming in the family from the time she is not i when i talk. to harvesting is a painstaking process. after the coffee cherries are picked they have to be watched

. the women in the co-operative earn twice as much as other coffee farmers in rwanda the profits are distributed evenly. because now we're going into a very orderly process where the bins where the bins are good are going to get out of the house the process is god forbid. i have read husks are used by the farm is as fertilizer. as you can because this is where the coffee beans go after the cherry has been discarded and they've been washed in fermented and then when they're wet you can clearly see which beings are good in 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 sauber and allen engine leaks finest the brand and the company

both belong to the women in the co-operative. i. think. i. remember getting connects the coffee beans have to draw i sew del 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 cooperative is a very special one. so. making the transportation of coffee more environmentally friendly is a big goal and nothing symbolizes that goal more than the album tour. it's the key to achieving

a truly sustainable product chain and. captain you all he has been ferrying goods across the oceans for many years this time it's 1000 sacks a fair trade coffee from central america. to me. 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 we're all burning every your land carrying goods that i don't really want to transport it's simply different here that's why i'm so glad i can work here or does . the oven to a transport's it's cargoes in the same way as our ancestors did nowadays. coffee

normally arrives in europe from the world's coffee growing regions by container ship. why would i want to on site with a government tour 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 half way around the world just to consume the mirror and whether we might be able to rethink it all and transport less of 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 suits and sulfur dioxide. the environmental impact of a sailing freighter on the other hand is largely negligible. that's it 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 and if there is no wind we simply wait. with all to stop it is the crew is at sea for 3 courses of the year. you'll need 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 here on board that's where. 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 is good. 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.

this sail powered freight transport really a viable alternative for the future most shipping companies bulk of the risks. but. 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 it is a lie just in time that. that everything is slowly getting underway when power is say is an expensive feel researchers are looking for ways to combine both in hybrid vessels that will be able to sailing goodwin's and use their engine in calm conditions the uninsured 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. 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 damp look to see if any more easter is accumulated somewhere or the cargo is slipped which can happen if the ship lurches violently as they have to. be of until 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. and use them 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 state also money

from coffee regardless of whether it's a luxury brand or cheap stuff from the supermarket fine even though it's not in germany there is a roasting tax which we all pay and that is 2 years 19 that is a huge amount so there's no way that half a kilo can cost $399.00 can you sign. the cheaper the coffee the less remains after tax for production and transportation but right now nicole's main concern is to make it to the final. to tell you 1st i think the biggest challenge will be to avoid any mistakes not to knock anything over as not to forget what i'm saying. context and not to tremble and controllability when entries we want yeah those are the 3 things but always happen i thought you must hear thanks. oh ok so. she's got 10 minutes to strut his stuff this time she's mixing filter coffee with butter rum and not liqueur

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. to. the wonders coffee is among the best in africa 400000 people work in the sector . the capital kigali is the main transportation hub for exports. southern 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 she. but let's start we're starting the roasting in house the

beans are refined roasted packed and prepared for export here in kigali we aren't sending any beans from africa to europe we're going to where it's 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 as. 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 through the oven to as 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 so i find it really special to return home on board the album tour under sail and i know how much would succumb. mean. the oven tour is welcomed by $200.00 volunteers friends and family. they all believe that sailing ships can revolutionize the way could such transport it. clearly a spoke a man who launched the whole project is here to welcome the crew without him none of them would be here.

but it was back to the left if you will with a. buck a man spent his life at sea and has seen what burning heavy oil does to the environment to change that he founded the company timber 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 customers he has ordered 20 tons of coffee from mexico mainly theoretical arise here but also a few bags of robust. his company is called taking a japanese word that means community. german consumers deal directly with coffee

farmers in mexico sharing responsibility for the harvest. payment policies are also unusual the coffee farmers who work for the company receive their money in advance and get a higher rate than is paid for goods bearing the fair trade seal. tightly imports 20 tons of coffee from full farm is and one co-operative 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 cafe in hamburg. oh thanks we have a very special treat for your birthday. that looks like the album to

it is what it was. sometimes 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 so. tight he and his to the principles of solidarity in agriculture consumers in germany order their coffee from farmers in mexico and the organization mediates the whole thing it doesn't make a profit. well for the nonprofit neophytes for the term nonprofit is often misunderstood nonprofit does not mean no pay. 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 well 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. and that we can all meet on an equal level no matter which continent we live on the gate and. the green cafes concept includes ditching the usual can't board or plastic coffee to go cups hit they made of biscuit and can be consumed immediately. as a vendor 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. telling secrets and. a steadily advancing their vision of bringing most solidarity to the

world of coffee. thanks. but at the bend in trade fair the focus is still on big business. however some good on the cole said there with their ideas for more equitable world trade. and you see chuck. and scientists would not be wondering grandson because he white nuns in france. spread just by women. we hope that angela finest will become a product that spreads beyond her wanda and then 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 in the called best of health is waiting

for the results of. her coffee creations has made it into the top 10. i should say for the world of. coffee once a luxury reserve told the rich today it's not only 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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