Fair Trade of Trade Fair?

Simon Reeve Documentaries

The range of programmes narrated by Simon Reeve are an excellent resource. I have used Equator, the Tropic of Cancer, the Tropic of Capricorn and Along the Rift Valley. His 2 recent programmes entitled the Tea Trail and the Coffee Trail are very interesting and worth a look also. (Download Hola better internet on Google Chrome to bypass regional restrictions)

Fair Trade

A short film from Colombia  showing how the seeds planted by the thousands of coffee farmers grow and produce the drink that is so readily consumed all around the world.  

As a worldwide glut of coffee beans forces Central American farmers and their families off their land, FRONTLINE/World's Sam Quinones follows a group of gourmet coffee importers who advocate "fair trade" as a partial solution to the crisis. He meets tasters, buyers and indigenous farmers in remote coffee-growing regions in 2003      link here

Meet the farmers: bananas, cocoa, coffee, cotton, flowers, gold, sugar and tea with links to a variety of video clips.            link here

This link is to Ravine Roses, about cut flowers in Kenya.

Traidcraft: Journey to the tea plantations of Tanzania and India to see the benefits that Fairtrade producers have reaped, see the impact of our development work in India and join the call for the big 5 tea brands to swap to Fairtrade.       

Don’t just fair trade, trade fair

This film challenges the naturally accepted notion that fair trade products are the best solution to helping impoverished farmers

Fairtrade Africa: Empowering Kilimanjaro's Indigenous Coffee Farmers        here

Fair Trade International have a series of recent video clips: On the trail of Fairtrade cotton; Tackling Climate change (in Peru);

Fairtrade fortnight …..a 13 minute film clip

Globalisation is Good

The world is an unequal and unjust place, in which some are born into wealth and some into hunger and misery. To explore why, in this controversial Channel Four documentary the young Swedish writer Johan Norberg takes the viewers on a journey to Taiwan, Vietnam, Kenya and Brussels to see the impact of globalisation, and the consequences of its absence. It makes the case that the problem in the world is not too much capitalism, globalisation and multinationals, but too little.