100 years ago visionaries reshaped. the people understood design is where shaping society. about half and does cross our. with ideas that are part of our future it sounds a part of. a. small 3 part documentary story made. coffee is a staple for many a habit is even a ritual and it's getting cheaper all the time. the european row stores are making bigger and bigger profits arning more and more money from coffee and the small farmers in africa who produce the coffee are getting less and less. shipping role coffee beans has

a high carbon footprint that's reviving interest in traditional transportation methods as minute change starts with a small group of people who others dismisses dreamers and then. is it even possible to change the $1000000000.00 coffee business. model that we're doing something no one's ever done before. many coffee lovers are eager to do more to support fairtrade. new car but if it normally works in a bed and cafe today however the 29 year old is gearing up for a competition and she's a bit nervous. nicole is about this stuff a professional who knows the ins and outs of a good cup of brew she has his sights set on. being crowned world champion at

berlin's world of coffee trade fair. you don't think of it think i think you have to be a bit crazy to do something like this but coffee is simply part of my life the biggest part actually. which is why she's interested in everything to do with coffee including how it's produced and transported and above all who makes money from it and who doesn't. i meant that with any other product we always want to know every detail right down to the name of the cow before we buy a carton of milk it's up sometimes we don't have that option with coffee at all because 95 percent of the market is dominated by a very opaque trading system and. coffee is traded on stock exchanges which is why the purchase price for green coffee beans fluctuates constantly. with these yachts but us consumers don't even know that world coffee prices in $21000.00 were at rock bottom for farmers they go to the supermarket buy their beans and think that

everything is normal. about you have to tell them more check what you're buying ask questions look at the package if there's no information on it how do you know what you're buying it and what it all. the $1000000000.00 to is deeply involved in the fight for more transparency in the coffee business but today she's also vying for the title of the world's best coffee creation. nicole has already won several awards at the german barista championships now she's competing in a completely new category coffee in good spirits. the challenge is to create the best mix of coffee and alcohol nicole is ambitious and wants to trump the competition. the fair brings together thousands of specialists from. all over the world.

coffee is a hot commodity and a huge business one that this man from berlin wants to change. some of the kids saying it aims to read the juice nice coffee production from planted see to roasted beans everything should remain in the hands of the produces as they say he's trying to win over this of course his. is a big deal we can get very close to the coffee experts and the consumers it's just fun pouring the coffee and getting the feedback. there is a bit of a back story to how he got here. 4 years ago some other discovered his passion for african coffee today he's an expert on this subject it takes 9 months before a crop can be harvested. for. this mystery the main thing is to pick only the red buds the greens should stay on they need a few more days og that's why it has to be done by hand.

you can make our coffee cooperative is nestled in the hills of northern rwanda from here that exports coffee to europe. he wants to vastly improve on the methods of big name competitors he and his business partner alan the pira were roommates back in berlin today they are working to create better jobs for people in no wonder. so . many of the young people. interested in getting into coffee business because their incomes in the coffee business are too low. to change this narrative to make sure that you know. most people who are involved in the coffee value chain better incomes and that will attract young people to come. well

coffee farm is wages have fallen in recent years the coffee industry sales have been increasing over the last 2 decades companies have managed to find ways to sell coffee at ever higher prices mainly in the form of capsules and pods. but wholesale prices have seen a dress to drop on the server and alan want to make the coffee trade fair or like a little clinic our coffee cooperative is their ideal partner the farmers here are independent entrepreneurs the cooperative pays good prices and a very special feature here women ripple lot of the benefits. and that's thanks to cover casey she's been working in the coffee industry all her life and sells different varieties of coffee. xander and allen with the missing piece of the puzzle for her vision.

that women coffee was. brewing in my head every time and. when we met i said wow name the even if it's a women coffee maybe a have to discuss that with the men about that we've been here. yeah. although coffee production is physically hard work it's usually done by women but when it comes to pay and making the important decisions men usually still have the say in parliament we have a big number of women but to be coffee in the coffee business is somehow different because we have a big number of women. in the family processing but in our position of frame of the season of decision making we have much more number of women on those kind of was issued. so it's why we have to empower women to.

look and shoot it up teeth is a good example she finds her own 80 coffee trees and has a demanding daily routine to get everything done. in the over one local golf game would i once i've taken the coffee beans to the co-operative i go home and look after the children. i make them something to eat and send one child to school for afternoon classes and then i take care of the household that way i can get all my work done. 'd so much to. me during the during. the work is meet once a week to discuss financial issues or work out how best to support each other they also make crafts which brings in extra income in addition to the coffee. many of the older workers lived through the genocide in rwanda 25 years ago and many lost

family members land and work united there working for a better future. in one has many activities to do at home the most they have. something i mean from that activity so that she can come visit the man because this is something which is. coming in the family from the time she is not around at home. harvesting is a painstaking process. after the coffee cherries are picked they have to be washed . the women in the co-operative earn twice as much as other coffee farmers in rwanda the profits are distributed evenly. ok now we're going into a very orderly process. well the bins where the bins are going to get

out of the house the process is poured powdered. i the red husks are used by the farm is as 1st eliza. as you can because this is where the coffee beans go after the cherry has been discarded and they've been washed and fermented and then when they're wet you can clearly see which beings are good in which aren't and then they have to be sorted again by hand which you've been. angelica has developed her own coffee brand with solder and allen engine leaks finest the brand and the company both belong to the women in the cooperative. i. think did not. get much.

connects the coffee beans have to dry so they are spread out on wooden wrecks for at least 15 days. this is by no means the last step in the production of leaks finest the next undertaken by the women's corporative is a very special one. making the transportation of coffee more environmentally friendly is a big goal and nothing symbolizes that goal more than that of one tour. it's the key to achieving a truly sustainable product chain. captain you ask him everything has been ferrying goods across the oceans for many years this time it's 1000 sacks a fair trade coffee from central america.

but because the soil doesn't seem much great that i can participate in such a project as a sailor i have few opportunities to use my professional qualifications in meaningful projects. normally when i work on a ship are all burning over your land carrying goods that i don't really want to transport it's simply different here that's why i'm so glad i can work here or does it out by. the oven to the transports it's called is in the same way as our ancestors did nowadays coffee normie arrives in europe from the world's coffee growing regions by container ship. deployment i want to onsite with the auburn tour we want to set an example and underscore that it's possible to transport cargo with low emissions. in addition we want to question whether it's really necessary to ship so many goods halfway around the world just

to consume the mare and whether we might be able to rethink it all and transport less although the. emission standards of the type on german roads obviously nonexistent at sea container ship transportation is very cheap but extremely harmful to the environment and addition to c o 2 the world's merchant fleets image huge clown's of nitrogen dioxide particulate matter and soffit dioxide. the environmental impact of assailing fright so on the other hand is largely negligible. as it is but it's very much we only use the engine when it's necessary to maneuver or for safety reasons we do not use it to get somewhere faster if there is no wind we simply wait. with a stop it is the crew is that see for 3 courses of the year. only

quit his job as a social worker to join the crew. last summer this is what's most fun sail down sail up steering hoisting tacking that's my job here on board. the majority of the crew works unpaid in exchange for learning how to sail they also want to support a movement to change global trade. change starts with a small group of people who others dismisses dreamers. and we don't mind being perceived as such. but increasingly people are starting to take us more seriously. is sail powered freight transport really a viable alternative for the future most shipping companies both at the risks. they all have the deadline pressure everything has to be somewhere at a certain time and nobody has the time to wait for the goods to arrive a little later nowadays everything has to be delivered just in time. just in time

for that. but everything is slowly getting underway when power is saves on expensive feel research has are looking for ways to combine both in a hybrid vessels that will be able to sailing goodwin's and use their engine income conditions the oven to it can transport 114 tons of cargo on this run it's mainly coffee and cocoa the hold is located 3 nieces deep in the ships. to get to our load we have to climb through this little hatch up here. we have about a 1000 sacks of coffee on board and my chief mate checks on the load every day and that's important so it doesn't get down. to see if any moisture is accumulated somewhere or if the cargo. slipped which could happen if the ship lurches violently

as they have to. be evan to voyage has covered over 18000 nautical miles now the crew is nearing hamburg. coffee a fashionable drink from far away. most of the wrist and the callback effect is passionately committed to good fair trade coffee she says that's why she would gladly pay a higher price for her brew. when you step out when i go into a shop to buy coffee i would say that a kilo of coffee should never cost less than $20.00 euros. the states also money from coffee regardless of whether it's a luxury brand or cheap stuff from the supermarket fine even though it's not in germany there is a roasting tax which we all pay and that is 2 years 19 that is a huge amount so there's no way that half a kilo can cost $399.00 the family sign. the cheaper the coffee the less remains

after tax for production and transportation but right now the calls main concern is to make it to the final. you tell me 1st and i think the biggest challenge will be to avoid any mistakes not to knock anything over as not to forget what i'm saying context and not to tremble and controllability when it is we don't yeah those are the 3 things that always happen i don't like him thanks. oh ok so. she's got 10 minutes to strut his stuff this time she's mixing filter coffee with butter rum and not a concoction designed to taste like caramel candy. it's important that the taste of coffee remains dominant enough in the finished drink over the next hours the judges will sample coffee creations from 80 contestants. who.

if you want his coffee is among the best in africa 400000 people work in this sector. the capital kigali is the main transportation hub for exports. sober and alan are breaking new ground as coffee traders in rwanda roasting the beans in the country of production rather than in europe in the coffee world that is still a rare exception. that we start we're starting the roasting in house the beans are refined roasted packed and prepared for export here in kigali we aren't sending any raw beans from africa to europe they're not always with us. this way the profits from the refining process stay in rwanda.

after all the manual processing the roasted coffee is ready for export it's available to buy in a german drugstore chain a kilo costs at least 230 s. . the export of a high quality finished product to europe is a boon for the region it creates new jobs and the profit stay in africa. it's one way to combat poverty and economic migration. from. the oven to as transporting unroasted green coffee it's a roma does not fade on the long voyage now the ship is almost at its destination. because i'm really very excited i was born and raised in hamburg and have been out and about at sea for 9 months and i find it really special to return home on board the album tour under sail. i know how much would succumb to.

the oven tour is welcomed by $200.00 volunteers friends and family. they all believe that sailing ships can revolutionize the way it's a transport it. spoke a man who launched the whole project is here to welcome the crew without him none of them would be. right. back out there. with a. buck a man spends his life at sea and has seen what burning heavy oil does to the environment to change that he founded the company to the coast. because it would use all of your transport cleanly and we treat everyone in this chain fairly the

farmers get a reasonable price and by the way the customers don't pay more than they do for coffee the comes by container ship if by the price of the same only the profits are not so big that's clear and everyone in the chain shoulders the cost equally including the environmental aspect of. hammon kuhlmann is one of the custom is he is ordered 20 tons of coffee from mexico mainly theoretic a variety but also a few bags of robust. his company is called tyke a japanese with that means community. german consume is deal directly with coffee from is in mexico sharing responsibility for the harvest. his payment policies are also unusual the coffee farmers who work for the company receive their money in advance and get a higher rate than is paid for goods bearing the fair trade. to get through all

this. typing imports 20 tons of coffee from full phone is and one co-operative in mexico it aims to double the amount each year in 89 years 500 small farmers in mexico could supply coffee 225-0000 households in germany. so far he has only imported the coffee now that found his son is opening the 1st tightly cafe in hamburg. oh it's our own thing so we have a very special treat for your birthday. on the set looks like the other $12.00 or it is. sometimes his line i created the initial design and then our own came and said dad it looks fine but it's not really contemporary so i said ok you take over and i'm handing it all over to you of course i'm learning from it

too how can i use the founder of the whole project take a step back that's the biggest challenge. when he goes there was full. time he and his to the principles of solidarity in agriculture consumers in germany order their coffee from farm is in mexico and the organization media it's a whole thing it doesn't make a profit. and offer the nonprofit new focus for the term nonprofit is often misunderstood nonprofit does not mean no pay because the niche just kind of goes on. so just as we pay each farmer according to his needs and that is our 1st priority we also ask the sailors and the roasters and the staff here in the cafe. a coffee i was on one and you didn't like it was so the basic principle in the thai key cosmos wherever we want to establish the model is that every employee is paid according to his or her own. and that we can all meet

on an equal level no matter which continent we live on the big one. the green cafes concept included stitching the usual concord or plastic coffee to go cups here they made of biscuit and can be consumed immediately. as a vendor and so if you don't want to eat your coffee mug which is made from delicious biscuit you can of course throw it away and it will decompose much faster than any paper cup or anything else on the market one of my. crew in hamburg a steadily advancing their vision of bringing more solidarity to the world of coffee. thank you. but at the bourbon trade fair the focus is still on big business. however sound good on chile cole said there

with their ideas for more equitable world trade. and you see just. as exciting this would not be ordinary grandson cos he white nuns in france. for just my women. we hope that angela finest will become a product that spreads beyond rwanda and then it gives other women's cooperatives from uganda peru colombia all of which already exist access to the market and thus to significantly higher prices higher wages and a bigger share of the profits. meanwhile in the called best of health is waiting for the results of the. her coffee creations have made it into the top 10. i. guess in the world.

company once a luxury reserved troll the rich today it's largely taken for granted with little awareness of its actual. consumers need to pay a fair price for the coffee they enjoy to ensure that those who produces get a fair way.

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