Coffee to Go explores the economic and environmental connections between farmers in Latin America, coffee drinkers in the U.S., and the fate of migratory songbirds throughout the Americas. The film powerfully demonstrates how coffee drinkers in this and other developed countries hold in their hands the fate of farm families, farming communities, and entire ecosystems in coffee-growing regions worldwide.
The film offers simple but effective solutions based on what Robert Rice of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center calls the "natural organic connection that exists between farmers, coffee drinkers, and birds." Simply by changing our buying habits, we coffee consumers can not only guarantee farmers a fair price, but also protect the songbirds that visit our backyard feeders--all while enjoying the highest-quality coffee, sent directly to our homes by the farmers themselves.
