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Coffee farmer Hagirso Funte (age 32) checks his fields after a rainstorm February 24, 2007 in the Sidamo coffee region of southern Ethiopia near the town of Yirgalem. Funte struggles to make enough money through coffee farming to support his wife and four children and says that coffee prices for 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) checks his fields after a rainstorm February 24, 2007 in the Sidamo coffee region of southern Ethiopia near the town of Yirgalem. Funte struggles to make enough money through coffee farming to support his wife and four children and says that coffee prices for Ethiopian farmers need to increase in order for him to get ahead.