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A campaign by Ethiopia to get a fair price for its coffee - some of the world's finest - kicks off in London today as a spokesman for the east African country's impoverished coffee growers meets Tony Blair.
The meeting will be accompanied by a screening of the film Black Gold - a movie on the global coffee industry - to MPs at Westminster, who will also be addressed by the Ethiopian ambassador to Britain.
The spokesman, Tadesse Meskela, who is the subject of Black Gold, together with the film's English makers, brothers Nick and Marc Francis, are a serious irritant to some of the world's coffee giants - in particular Seattle-based Starbucks, whose annual turnover of $7.8bn (£4bn) is not much lower than Ethiopia's entire gross domestic product...
For full story: politics.guardian.co.uk/development/story/0,,2001039,00.html
Starbucks Feels the Heat for Exploiting Coffee Farmers in Ethiopia
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Starbucks stirred by fair trade film
By Ashley Seager
The Guardian/UK, Jan 29, 2007
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