Images by B. AlterIt’s beenFairtrade Fortnight, and in celebration Starbucks has released a special new Fairtrade coffee from Rwanda. It’s part of their complete switch-over last year to selling only 100% Fairtrade espresso-based coffees in the UK and Ireland. This makes Starbucks the largest buyer of Fairtrade Certified Coffee in the world which is pretty impressive, no matter what you think of them.

This TreeHugger was invited to a Starbucks tasting and informal discussion with coffee farmers and producers from Costa Rica and Tanzania. As a long-time anything-but-Starbucks coffee drinker, I att…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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