Our class just finished watching the documentary "Black Gold" about the unfair coffee trade that farmers are the victims of. There are hundreds of multinational coffee companies that dominate shopping malls and supermarkets. These companies are worth over 80 billion dollars, making coffee the second largest commodity in the world, after oil.
Black Gold mainly follows the life of Tadesse Meskela, an Ethiopian coffee manager who has made it his goal to save his 74,000 coffee farmers from bankruptcy. Meskela travels the world in search for buyers who will give his coffee farmers a fair price for their goods.
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