DVD Details
DVD ID | DVD00004 |
DVD Title | Black Gold |
Source | None |
KeyWord | Starring: Tadesse Meskela Directors: Marc Francis and Nick Francis Release Date: August 7, 2007 Run Time: 78 minutes |
Short Description | The film "Black Gold" focuses on an Ethiopian farmers cooperative seeking to increase the price received by its farmers for coffee production. In the course of things, it touches on the role of the middlemen, the WTO, food aid, aid versus trade, U.S. and European agricultural subsidies and the extreme poverty of Ethiopian coffee farmers. |