11/10

Today in class we went over our notes. For homework we had to find four websites that could help solve our questions from our last blog.
http://www.sustainableharvest.com/relationship-coffee/
http://www.coffeeresearch.org/politics/organic.htm
http://www.zokacoffee.com/what-is-specialty-coffee.htm
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-coffee-roasters.htm

Coffee Trade

Fair Trade Coffee - is an organized social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in delvoping coffe obtain better trading conditions and promote susbiniality. www.wiki.com 
Ceritifed Organic Coffee - are coffee beans that have been produced without the use of pesticides or herbicides.http://www.coffeeresearch.org/politics/organic.htm
Relationship Coffee - is an alternative to the traditional coffee supply chain. http://www.sustainableharvest.com/relationship-coffee/
Specialty Coffee - The term "specialty coffee" refers to the highest-quality green coffee beans roasted to their greatest flavor potential by true artisan roasters. These beans are then brewed to perfection as defined by industry standards established long ago. (begins with the planting of a particular type of coffee into a certain growing region.)http://www.zokacoffee.com/what-is-specialty-coffee.html
Roasters - the process of taking ripe green coffee beans and turning them into the brown or black coffee beans, which are then ground and used to make coffee. 1.  are professionals who obtain beans in large quantities and devise roast times to achieve certain types of tastes. 2.to a number of different machines, or sometimes the people who use them, that can be employed in the home to create coffee roasts in much smaller batches. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-coffee-roasters.htm



Questions

1. What are the biggest coffee exporting countries?
2. How does coffee get from the field to the breakfast table?
3. Why is there good and bad coffee? Does it depend on how you haresvt or import the coffee beans?
4. How are coffee beans grown and imported?
5. How many companies around the world import coffee? Who is #1 in import and exporting?

notes

• Coffee is the most heavily traded crop in the world, more than wheat or rice
• There are many places where you can buy coffee
• It takes alot of work to make coffee
• Producers of coffe are not recieving enough, because they are

11/4/10

Today in class we continued to work on our project. Me and Clark are almost done.

10/28

Today in class we started our new project. We each have partners and we got to pick what subjected we wanted to write about.

10/28

Today in class we started our new project. We each have partners and we got to pick what subjected we wanted to write about.

10/27

To begin class we talked about where we are in the movie.  We finished the movie today. John Bul Dau was reunited with his mother and sister. Panther went back to Africa and got married. Daniel has yet to fin his family. All of the men have had success with their new lives. They have gotten degrees. Some of them have opened different places. To end the class we talked about our upcoming project. I have been pared with Clark Grube and we are doing our topic about the Dinka tribe.