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Dean's Beans is a coffee roasting company that sells 100 percent fair trade (and 100 percent organic) coffee. The 100 percent is key: most coffee companies that advertise themselves as fair trade actually buy only a very small percentage of their beans at fair-trade prices. Dean's goes ever further and works with the foreign communities from whom it buys beans, sponsoring People-Centered Development projects which include Miriam's Well, a revolving loan fund in Ethiopia that helps farmers build wells in their communities.
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This material is excerpted from The Nation Guide to the Nation published by Vintage Books in January, 2009.
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