Film: Producing fair trade organic coffee in the highlands of Chiapas

This film was very interesting to me. It showed the everyday tasks that the Indigenous people needed to do to produce the coffee that supported their way of life. Producing this organic coffee was so important to them because that was their income. The men were in charge of the planting, fertilizing, and bringing the plants back to the women who roasted the coffee and prepared it to be traded. It is apart of their everyday lives because the trade of their coffee will provide them with essentials to live their lives. This film showed how much labor the women put into the production of the coffee. They had many important tasks in the production of the coffee and they were probably the most important part to making the coffee business successful for their families and community.