BLACK GOLD movie trailer

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Black Gold follows an Ethiopian coffee producer's epic journey around the world as he attempts to get a fair price for his high quality coffee. The film highlights that the solution for Africa is in equitable TRADE and NOT AID.

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[Lisa Vickers]

... and don't buy any coffee from Ethiopia that's for sure!

[blackgoldmoviedotcom]

'don't buy any coffee from Ethiopia' - Black Gold does not advocate a boycott of this kind. Perhaps we could debate what you meant in your comment on the Black Gold forum (please visit our site).

[Dan daMan]

we could simply pay a little more for our coffee and those peolpe wouldn't need to grow narcotics and turn to piracy...very touching film!

[Lisa Vickers]

It's great that someone has finally made a movie about this trade so that the public can see for themselves what is REALLY happening out there.

Buy Fair Trade!

[eolsunder]

yes farmers there don't make much on the coffee. Cause they don't have to ship it, market it, transport it, distribute it, etc etc. If we could all go THERE and drink the coffee, they would make more from it, but it costs a lot of money to move it around the world. I bet you don't have to pay 3 bucks for a cup in their country.

[Michael Farmer]

I do, but only fair trade. It is very good, after all.

[jj trap]

I have seen this film and this is very touching indeed. I would highly recommend to all of you guys this film, this is really interesting. It’s a worth watching film, by watching this film you will be aware of what is really happening out there.

[GsuZonAciD]

...in other words... the west does not abide by free market economics..... So why is it that African nations should not be able to sanction such ideas? .... Ill tell you why... because the west want to continue to exploit its resources to maintain an obscene amount of wealth as opposed to comfortable levels of wealth - highlighted in the movie with regard to developing nations not getting a foot at the table of the WTO

[GsuZonAciD]

Having done an economics degree at the University of Edinburgh, I can assure you, western economies have built in fair trade mechanisms which is in law, which the developing world does not yet have. You would be naive to think otherwise. Do you really think 4 pints of milk that has come from a French dairy farmer, that you bought from Sainsburys cost less than £1.10 to make? No.

Also look at our trade union system and co-operatives in our own history; originating in Manchester

[GalbertKun]

Watched this yesterday, shit pissed me off

Fuck the WTO for not giving Africans a voice

[roxette521]

We don't have to spend more, a few people just have to make less and WTO needs to stop being unfair. Fair trade coffee is not that expensive when you contract directly with the growers, and if enough roasters do that then the market price will change naturally.