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Coffee farmer Hagirso Funte (age 32), his wife and four children are seen February 23, 2007 in their home in the Sidamo coffee region of southern Ethiopia near the town of Yirgalem. Funte struggles to make enough money through coffee farming and says that coffee prices earned by Ethiopian farmers need to increase in order for him to get ahead.

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Copyright: Scott Nelson 2007
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Coffee farmer Hagirso Funte (age 32), his wife and four children are seen February 23, 2007 in their home in the Sidamo coffee region of southern Ethiopia near the town of Yirgalem. Funte struggles to make enough money through coffee farming and says that coffee prices earned by Ethiopian farmers need to increase in order for him to get ahead.