Write a short commentary on the film : BLACK GOLD (USA. 2006. Directed by Tadessa Meskela, Ethiopia).
Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate an industry worth over $80 billion, making coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil.
But while we continue to pay for our lattes and cappuccinos, the price paid to coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon their coffee fields. Nowhere is this paradox more evident than in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. Tadesse Meskela is one man on a mission to save his 74,000 struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy. This powerful and award winning documentary traces the struggle for fair trade coffee by a farmers’ collective in Ethiopia.
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