Coffee

The story of coffee has its beginnings in Ethiopia, the original home of the coffee plant, coffee arabica, which still grows wild in the forests of the highlands.

Black Gold: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

A new documentary movie which looks at the US $80 billion global coffee industry, where the profit margins of huge multinational coffee companies continue to rise while prices paid for coffee harvests have reached an all-time low, forcing farmers in some of the world's poorest countries to abandon their once bountiful fields.

Progresso

Progresso, a coffee bar venture that launched in May 2004 by Oxfam, is designed to be the "brand leader for Fairtrade in the UK coffee shop market, serving only Fairtrade espresso blends and house coffees, Fairtrade sugar and honey."

For more information visit the official website  http://www.progreso.org.uk/