Over the last ten years the balanced coffee market has been flooded with millions of sacks of coffee beans from Vietnam, causing the trade in coffee to collapse. With the support of the IMF and European Funds many Vietnamese farmers started growing coffee. Today Vietnam is both cause and victim of the coffee crisis. For his reportage Anderson travelled not only to Vietnam, which is pouring out the coffee, but also Brazil, the largest coffee producer in the world. In Italy he visited the Illy family business. Illy sets high standards for its product, and gives Brazilian coffee farmers a fair price for the quality 'Arabica' beans.

Christopher Anderson (b. 1970) is a member of the VII Agency (Paris), established by James Nachtwey and others.

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