| Notes | After oil, coffee is the most actively traded commodity in the world. But for every $3 cup of coffee, a coffee farmer receives only three cents. Most of the money goes to the middlemen, especially the four conglomerates which control the coffee market.
This DVD asks us to face the unjust conditions under which our favorite drink is produced and to decide what we can do about it. It follows Tadesse Meskela, representative of the Oromio Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union in southern Ethiopia, as he tries to secure a living wage for the Ethiopian coffee farmers he represents.
Black Gold goes inside the coffee auctions in Addis Ababa, London and New York where the fate of the coffee growing nations is decided, exposing how international commodities markets are rigged against the nations of the global south. Shows how ordinary citizens can influence trade, environmental and human rights policy xe2x80x94 voting with their dollars for a more equitable relationship between the global north and south. |
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