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Green Coffee Marketplace

T his year has not been easy for people in the coffee industry,

including 25 million smallholder farmers who are responsible
for growing 80% of the world’s coffee. In total, 125 million
people depend on coffee for their livelihood, from transporting
and roasting the beans to selling the final product. Despite the difficulties in
origin countries like finding sufficient migrant labor, even much smaller
coffee-producing countries like Ethiopia , which exports about four million
bags of coffee per year, have largely been able to continue production as
planned. In many countries, including major producing nations such as Bra-
zil and Colombia, workers in the coffee sector have been defined as essential
workers who must continue to work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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