In her latest article posted on nazret.com, Dr. Eleni Gabre-Madhin, CEO, ECX, called Coffee Politics' blogger (Wondwossen) a "self-appointed coffee tsar," "patronizing," and "ill-informed," who tells "myths." This is an ill-advised public statement, but what is most interesting is that the article, supposedly an expose of the "myths," avoided the central issues discussed on this blog and, where it calls out the issues, it tries to address them in a self-serving and disingenuous manner. Read my response to the article here: Straightening out coffee facts for the record -------- Will The Real Poor Farmer Rise By Eleni Z. Gabre-Madhin* nazret.com A self-appointed coffee tsar in Seattle speaks, rather patronizingly, on behalf of the poor coffee farmer in Ethiopia. In the comfortable latte-infused cafés in which he may post his blogs, things may seem rather different than the reality half a world away in the homelan...