Southeast Asia commodities affected by global financial crisis

Updated October 15, 2008 21:16:51

The US economic uncertainty is driving down the price of agricultural commodities and having an impact on the rural poor across Southeast Asia, from Burmese migrant workers working in Thai rubber plantations to the coffee-growers of the Vietnamese highlands.


Presenter: Sonia Randhawa
Speaker: Indonesian coffee exporter Olivier Tichit, David Midmore