Synopsis
Unregulated farming is threatening the future of the coffee industry in Vietnam.
- 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 | Impact of global trade
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