Fair coffee (Markus)

A lot of people drink it every morning -coffee. Most people don't think about how the coffee is made and dealed. They don't think about the situation in the countries, where this very popular drink is made. Coffee is more bought and sold more than any other thing on our planet. So you see coffee is very important on the market. This creates a lot of problems.

Firstly, the coffee is so popular, that a lot of people want to deal with it. But they don't always do this in a fair way. The farmers work very hard for every single coffee-bean, but mostly they are very poor. They only get 50cent for a kilo, but the big buyers sell it for more than seven dollars.

That isn't fair!

Secondly, although a lot of people drink softdrinks now, the farmers still produce as much coffee as they did before. So there is too much coffee and it's easier for the big buyers, because coffee is cheaper and the farmers get less money. So a lot of farmers decide to go to the USA. And in the future there will be fewer farmers and that means, that there will be less coffee.

So what can we do? In my opinion people should support the project called Fair Trade, because with Fair Trade products the farmers got the money they deserve. I think with Fair Trade the world has become a little bit fairer.