Synopsis
Simon Reeve visits a Nestle factory, in Ho Chi Minh City.
- Programme: This World
- Episode: The Coffee Trail with Simon Reeve
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2014
- Geography | Globalisation, trade and interdependence | Globalisation and global trade | Global trade
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