Coffee : a sackful of power / directed by Alexander Valenti.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Valenti, Alexandre, author.

Contributor:

In Fine Films.

Alexander Street Press.

Series:

Global business and economics in video

Filmakers library online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coffee--Economic aspects--Brazil.

Coffee.

Coffee--Economic aspects--Costa Rica.

Coffee--Brazil--History.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (54 minutes).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1999.

Language Note:

This edition in English.

System Details:

digital

data file

Summary:

Coffee ranks second only to oil as the most important raw material on the world market. It has shaped the economies, history and social structure of a large part of Latin America. Composed of archival photographs, old newsreels and penetrating interviews, this documentary takes a broad view of the influence of coffee through the ages. First introduced in the eighteenth century, coffee is now the most popular drink in the world after water. South America supplies 66% of the world production, although most of the profits go to traders and speculators outside the region. The film explains the difference between the Brazilian and Costa Rican system of production, and why the Brazilian system has led to such poverty. Mechanization of farms has thrown many rural laborers out of work, an explosive situation in a country where one percent of the population owns 46% of the land. Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias and economist Celso Furtado analyze the market forces that affect coffee prices. An important film for economics and Latin American studies.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).

Other Format:

836

ISBN:

9781503406957

OCLC:

747796866

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.