The East Timor group Cooperativa Cafe Timor has joined with international aid organizations to help farmers produce and market higher quality coffee for specialty coffee shops like the U.S.chain Starbucks.
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Unfortunately for Kenyans, most of the highest qualitycoffee produced in their country still gets exported to other parts of the world.
In the case of Starbucks, I think the effect of price on demand is more dramatic than commonly thought, as qualitycoffee can now be had at McDonald's for a fraction of Starbucks' prices.