The Price of a Perfect Cup: Ethiopia's Coffee Economy and the Justice Gap American Consumers Rarely See
The Ethiopian coffee bean sits at the center of a global industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars, yet the farmers who cultivate it in the highlands of Yirgacheffe and Sidama frequently earn wages that bear no proportional relationship to the prices Americans pay at their neighborhood café. This piece examines the structural inequities embedded in global coffee supply chains, Ethiopia's increasingly assertive efforts to reclaim value from its most iconic export, and what the resulting tens