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Coffee Break


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Subjects: Agriculture, Child Labour, Children's Rights, Global Issues, Human Rights, Pesticides

Grade Level: SrH-Adult
Producer: Filmakers Library
Closed Captioned: 		Running Time: 27 mins
Country of Origin: United States
Study Guide: No
Copyright Date: 1998
Available in French: No

Next to oil, coffee is the most important commodity in the world. This documentary was filmed during the coffee harvest on a farm near the border between Nicaragua and Honduras. Here the conditions are almost feudal. The work starts at 12:30 at night and continues until six the next evening. On a good day, the best of the pickers can earn up to three dollars, but most of the women and children earn half that much. Children as young as eight are out in the fields to add to their family's income. In addition to the back breaking labour, the workers are exposed to pesticides that are harmful both to themselves and the environment. Even though coffee prices go higher and higher, it does not change the conditions of the farm workers in their marginal existence.

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