"Black Gold COFFEE:THE TRUE STORY" Question&Answer

3. a)What three things about an early morning cafe can make people feel good?

    A: music , picture and smell

    b)Why are coffee farmers in developing countries not happy?

    A: They get very little money and can't get the price they want.

    c)Where is the international price of coffee set?

    A: New York

    d)Which country is the world's biggest coffee produce?

    A: Africa

    e)In which year did Tadesse start his Co-operative Union?

    A: 1999

    f)Name the three types of coffee that Tadesse's farmers produce.

    A: Harar , Sidamo and Yirgacheffe

4. a)What do you think?

    A: I feel sad for them because they all do hard work on it but they just get a little money.

    b)What can Tadeese Meskela do to get a better price for his coffee?

    A: Wait the Union looking the fairer market where they can sell their coffee for better price.

    c)Write him a letter giving your suggestions.

    A: I don't have any suggestion.

5. a)Coffee is normally sold through a six-part chain. Coffee farmers are at the beginning of the chain.Who or what do you think make the rest of the chain?

    A: I think middlemen make the rest of the chain.

    b)The title of Chapter 3 is The WTO Talks in Mexico. The talks were about trying to make world trade fairer. What do you think happened at these talks? Were they successful? Why? Why not?

    A: I think these talk have failed completely. They were not successful because each country only talking about the right to their cooperation.

6. c) Coffee is the most traded commodity on the world after oil.

    e) Not many companies are happy to work outside the New York market.

7. a) The EU sent more than 650 delegates to the WTO talks.

    b) For the talks to be success, everyone needed to co-operate.

    c) For the developing countries trade was more important than aid.

    d) The the EU and the USA refused to stop subsidising their farmers.

    e) For the EU and the US, the rights of their corporations were more important than poverty and development.

8. a)Sam Mpasu from Malawi said, 'Trade is more important to us than aid.' Why is trade more important to developing countries than aids?

   A: Trade is more important than aids because aids have limit but trade not, they want the fairer trade, the money they should be get.

    b)Pascal Lamy, an Eu delegates, said, ' The developing countries didn't want to learn about ways to manage the free market.' Do you agree with him? Why? Why not?

   A: Disagree, because the Eu and USA just care about their profit and their right about the cooperation, doesn't care about how the coffee farmers feel. They want to learn but the powerful country keep suppressing them.