British supermarket Sainsbury’s will begin stocking Fair Trade Coffee produced in the Congo, according to a recent article on The Guardian website. Coffee smuggling between the DRC and Rwanda is responsible for a huge number of deaths each year:
Most coffee from this part of DRC is smuggled across the lake to Rwanda at night. Official figures report that a thousand people drown each year in the process.
It is hoped that contracts like this will offer farmers from conflict zones a safer alternative.
(source: The Guardian, photo: hdptcar)
