Coffee Questions - Homework

Definitions

Fair Trade Coffee - is an organized social movement and market-based (sell to the economy, markets, good money and afforable) approach that aims to help producers in delvoping coffe obtain better trading conditions and promote susbiniality (have that crop growing and growing, continuing). 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 Enpowers farmers, lifts them out of poverty, helping people how are growing coffee. grown without the use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides or other chemicals to help protect and nurture the planet for this generation and the many more to come.
Relationship Coffee - is an alternative to the traditional coffee supply chain. Importer of high quality, small scale farmer, naturally organic coffee beans  grown according.  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?