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Black Gold - A Film About Coffee And Trade

Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the industry worth over $80 billion, making coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil.

But while we continue to pay for our lattes and cappuccinos, the price paid to coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon their coffee fields.

Nowhere is this paradox more evident than in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. Tadesse Meskela is one man on a mission to save his 74,000 struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy. As his farmers strive to harvest some of the highest quality coffee beans on the international market, Tadesse travels the world in an attempt to find buyers willing to pay a fair price.

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Saffy handcrafts

SAFFY stands for Social Action for Filipino Youth, the birth name of SAFRUDI. It became the organization’s trade name for its export items upon its incorporation in 1970. From its humble beginnings as a workshop that provides alternative livelihood for the out-of-school youth in marginalized areas of Manila through sewing projects, it now assists some 50 small producers of various novelties from all over the Philippines.

SAFFY aims to enhance the artistic and business skills of Filipino craftsmen. It taps producers to craft collections for exposition in international trade fairs, and has in fact carved for them a regular market in Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific.

Aside from acting as a marketing arm, SAFFY runs its own In-house Production specializing in items made with Capiz shells and Coco-fiber.

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2594 Lamayan Street
Sta. Ana, Manila
1009 Philippines

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Kieku l-Ikel Jitkellem (WorldFest 2009)

 

WorldFest '09

Is-Sibt, 9 ta' Mejju 2009

Ġnien l-Indipendenza, Tas-Sliema

10.00am - 10.00pm, dħul b’xejn

 

Ikel u artiġjanat tal-Kummerċ Ġust mill-ħanut L-ARKA; prodotti tal-biedja lokali

 

11.00am12.30pm – Stejjer, tpinġija u xogħol tal-idejn għat-tfal, 7-10 snin

 

1.00pm – Tfal jiżirgħu pjanti organiċi (Food First Malta)

 

5.00pm – Preżentazzjoni dwar Fuelling or Fooling Europe? (FoE, Malta)

 

5.00pm – 6.30pm – Stejjer, tpinġija u crafts għat-tfal, 7-10 snin

 

6.00pm – Tfal jiżirgħu pjanti organiċi (Food First Malta)

 

6.00pm – Public Forum, If food 

could speak

Chairperson: William Grech

Riccardo Franciolini (Italy), Rural Development in Small Islands of the Mediterranean and food sovereignity

Eric Van Monckhoven (Belgium, Italy) – The Ecology of Food

Carmel Cassar, Slow Food Malta

Vince Caruana, Food First Malta

Victor Galea, Ager Foundation (Gozo)

 

7.00pm –Forum Pubbliku, Meta l-ikel jitkellem

Tmexxi: Anna Zammit

Angele Deguara, Koperattiva Kummerċ Ġust

Ġwann Xerri OP

Joe Galea, Koperattiva Rurali Manikata

Evarist Bartolo, PL, Tfal ikkundannati għall-mewt

Carmel Cacopardo, AD

Philip Mifsud, PN

Clement Azzopardi, Koperattiva Ċentrali tal-Bdiewa

 

7.00pm Bejgħ ta’ ikel minn Malta, il-Palestina, l-Eritrea, u s-Somalja. Jinkludi qassatat mill-Koperattiva Rurali Manikata bir-ross tal-Kummerċ Ġust u ikel Palestinjan bil-kuskus tal-Kummerċ Ġust.

 

8.00pm Kunċert bis-sehem ta’ kittieba minn Malta u l-Irlanda, u l-mużiċisti Danjeli, Antoine Vella u Brikkuni

 

http://www.l-ikel.org

dan il-proġett

Għadd ta' nies minn oqsma differenti tas-soċjetà f'Malta, qed jaħdmu fuq it-tema tal-ikel għall-festival tal-kummerċ ġust WorldFest organizzat mill-Ħanut L-Arka li se jsir f'Mejju 2009 - it-tmien edizzjoni ta' dan il-festival. Huma mnebbħa mill-fatt li rivoluzzjoni fil-produzzjoni u d-distribuzzjoni tal-ikel kapaċi taqleb id-dinja, ħafna drabi inġusta tagħna, ta' taħt fuq.

 

Qed jagħmlu riċerka u jaħdmu b'mod artistiku fuq id-dritt tal-ikel, il-produzzjoni lokali u l-impatt fuq in-natura u l-kultura ta' Malta, il-ġustizzja ma' produtturi fqar fin-nofsinhar tad-dinja, l-ikel u l-kummerċ ġust, il-ħolqien ta' prodotti lokali u globali li jkunu ġusti u organiċi...
 

L-ewwel fażi tal-proġett tilħaq il-qofol tagħha fil-WorldFest fid-9 ta' Mejju 2009 fi Ġnien l-Indipendenza, Tas-Sliema, iżda l-proġett jibqa' sejjer sal-WorldFest f'Mejju 2010.

 

Food sovereignity is “a vision with some fairly clear ideas about what needs to happen so that small farmers can survive, that the environment is maintained, and that there is global justice."

Wayne Roberts notes that the subject of food helped him “feel the world as connected.” Life is rich and "it’s great to be part of a movement based on the joy of sharing abundance,” which, for him, “is what the food movement is all about.” It’s the “food revolution.”

Wayne Roberts

The No Nonsense Guide to World Food (2008)

 

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