Birdsong & Coffee
10Mar2008 10:02 PM Film
& Video
Birdsong and Coffee - A Wake Up
Call is a
great little documentary (with links to
Community Agroecology
Network and other organizations working
to make a positive difference) about how
shade-grown, fair-trade coffee helps not only
protect the biodiversity in lovely countries
like Costa Rica (which we had the pleasure of
visiting a few years ago), Mexico (likewise on the
fond memories of visiting), El Salvador, and
Nicaragua, but also maintains the vital economy of
coffee farmers in those regions. An important
aspect of the film for me is how students from UC
Santa Cruz were "adopted" by their Central
American families, and they realized how kind and
caring the farmers were both to their families and
the land, and also to the northern researchers. I
didn't realize that coffee, as a world commodity,
is second only to oil! (I'm not even a coffee
drinker, but I love the smell...) Another local
company doing their utmost to make a positive
difference (we love their chocolate!) is
Dagoba. I checked out
Birdsong and Coffee - A Wake Up
Call from RVML.
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