A piece that is dominated by lovely use of sound that really takes gives the listener a strong sense of place. I liked the interviews with the people involved, especially an elder mourning the loss of old ways, the disappearance of animals from the environment, his vanishing language.
We pay fancy prices in the West for designer coffees - politically correct coffees - but it doesn’t seem to really be making a dent in the lives of the people who most depend on selling the coffee they grow – but at least it’s a start. The movement needs to catch on the way that protests against GM products in Britain and Europe did – people demanded the right to eat healthy and safe food. Now we need to start demanding for the rights of the people who grow our food – especially those on the lower economic scale who aren’t in a position to make demands on their own behalf.
This piece at least gives them a hearing.