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Green Coffee & Tea: By the Numbers
- 17 to 20 million: Number of families who grow coffee around the world.
- 50 percent: Percentage of the world’s coffee grown by small family farmers.
- 2nd: Coffee's value as a commodity in the world, after petroleum, and the U.S. is the world’s biggest coffee importer.
- $89 million: Sales of organic coffee in the U.S. in 2005, a 40.4 percent increase over the previous year.
- From $50 million to $500 million: Increase in Fair Trade coffee sales in the US, between the years 2000 and 2005.
- 11.5 million: pounds of Fair Trade Certified coffee purchased by Starbucks in 2005, North America’s largest purchaser of Fair Trade coffee. Although this is a small percentage of their sales, it represents approximately 10 percent of global Fair Trade coffee imports.
Sources: Rainforest Alliance, TransFair, Starbucks
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