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24th September 2008 at 19:00 BST
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Coffee is not just a drink.
It's a global commodity. While Americans and Europeans continue to pay for luxury lattes and cappuccinos, the prices paid to coffee farmers remain so low that many have been forced to abandon their fields. BLACK GOLD tells the complex story behind an attempt to make globalization work for the producers of the second most traded commodity in the world, after oil. Nowhere is the disparity of the coffee industry more evident than in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee, where the film follows one producer and campaigner from the field to the international negotiating arena to London and Seattle.
Q&A - After the screening we will discuss the relevance of this film to Latin American coffee production and trade, with speaker TBC.
Directed by Marc Francis & Nick Francis
2006, UK, 77 mins
www.blackgoldmovie.com
Coffee is not just a drink.
It's a global commodity. While Americans and Europeans continue to pay for luxury lattes and cappuccinos, the prices paid to coffee farmers remain so low that many have been forced to abandon their fields. BLACK GOLD tells the complex story behind an attempt to make globalization work for the producers of the second most traded commodity in the world, after oil. Nowhere is the disparity of the coffee industry more evident than in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee, where the film follows one producer and campaigner from the field to the international negotiating arena to London and Seattle.
Q&A - After the screening we will discuss the relevance of this film to Latin American coffee production and trade, with speaker TBC.
Directed by Marc Francis & Nick Francis
2006, UK, 77 mins
www.blackgoldmovie.com
Tickets: £5.11 (£6.00 incl. VAT) / Members: £3.40 (£4.00 incl. VAT)