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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Victims of cheap coffee
  name:
    name part: Pesonen, Pertti
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: director.
  name:
    name part: Yleisradio Oy
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Internet videos.
  genre: Documentary films.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2004
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: mul
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (51 min.).
  abstract: Collapsing prices on the world coffee market have thrown millions of growers around the world into poverty. The price farmers receive for coffee is at its lowest in over thirty years. Coffee plantation owners are bankrupt and the workers are starving. Filmed in Nicaragua and Vietnam, the film describes the human consequences that the collapse of coffee prices has caused in producer countries. Among the poorest countries in Latin America, Nicaragua is more dependent on coffee production than other South American countries. Rosa Maria Mendez buried her six-year-old son, who had died of starvation. "We have nothing left but to wait for death," she says as she looks after her five surviving children. Vietnam, one of the few remaining socialist countries, began to take steps toward a market economy in the 1990s. Advised by the IMF and the World Bank to focus on crops for export, they switched from rice to coffee. In ten years Vietnam became the second largest coffee producer, after Brazil, leading to an international oversupply. The price dropped and 700,000 coffee farmers of Vietnam were impoverished. Multinational companies have profited because coffee is so cheap. The crisis is worldwide: the International Coffee Organization says that the price crash has pushed over 25 million people into poverty as farmers who used to grow food now sell coffee.
  target audience: For College; Adult audiences.
  target audience: general
  note: produced by YLE - Finnish Broadcasting Company ; directed by Pertti Pesonen.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
  note: Slide.
  note: Previously released as DVD.
  note: This edition in Vietnamese and Spanish with English subtitles.
  note: Award of Merit, Latin American Studies Association 2004
  note: Global Visions Film Festival, Edmonton, 2004
  subject:
    topic: Coffee growers
    geographic: Nicaragua
    topic: Economic conditions
  subject:
    topic: Coffee growers
    geographic: Vietnam
    topic: Economic conditions
  subject:
    topic: Coffee industry
    geographic: Nicaragua
  subject:
    topic: Coffee industry
    geographic: Vietnam
  subject:
    topic: Coffee plantation workers
    geographic: Nicaragua
    topic: Economic conditions
  subject:
    topic: ntation workers
    geographic: Vietnam
    topic: Economic conditions
  subject:
    geographic: Vietnam
  subject:
    geographic: Nicaragua
  classification: HD9199 .P476 2004
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Global business and economics in video
  identifier: 9781503407480
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: VaAlASP
    record creation date: 130701
    record change date: 20260324205527.9
    record identifier: in00003747757