‘Skeletons in its closet’ Uganda’s Daily Monitor on CICTAR’s latest Starbucks report

Daily Monitor article on CICTAR Starbucks report

The Daily Monitor, one of Uganda’s two largest daily newspapers, picks up the CICTAR report on Starbucks and asks why coffee producing nations are not earning as much as they should from a product that the world ‘clearly can’t get enough of’.

Delving into the findings of CICTAR’s research, the paper concludes that Starbucks ‘has a substantial number of skeletons in its closet to clean’

In its reporting, The Daily Monitor highlights the central allegation in the report, that Starbucks claims 99% of its coffee is ethically sourced while shifting profits to Switzerland, leaving scant revenue for coffee producing countries. It also notes claims, and related legal challenges, of major labor abuses in Starbucks’ supply chains. The article points out that while the pay gap between striking workers and the chief executive officer (earning US$ 97.8m) is shocking enough, the disparity is even more severe when that figure is compared to the earnings of farmers and workers in countries such as Uganda.

‘It is time for coffee producing nations - especially Uganda - to wake up and smell the coffee’?

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