With retail sales estimated at $80 billion, coffee is the second most actively traded commodity in the world after oil.
Black Gold is an eye-opening documentary exploring the coffee trade from its agricultural birthplace in Ethiopia, where it generates 67 percent of the country’s export revenue, to your cup in Starbucks.
English film-makers Nick and Marc Francis target the multinational giants controlling the coffee market, as well as the World Trade Organization, following Tadesse Meskela on his determined mission to secure a fair price for coffee beans and a fair deal for Ethiopia’s 70,000 coffee farmers.
