2. Key Issues
What is Fair Trade?
What is Ethical Trading?

3. Literacy Key Words
Fair-trade
Farmer
Retailer
Consumer

4. Going Shopping Price Brand Name Picture of Person Quality Availability
When you go shopping what factors influence your decision to buy? Why?
Price
Brand
Name
Picture of Person
Quality
Availability

5. The Facts
Increasingly consumers want to know more about who makes the products they buy.
Whether the products are environmentally friendly?
What conditions are like for workers who make the product?
What the manufacturers reputation is like – do they for example, use child labour, or are their products tested on animals?
Is the packaging they use recyclable?
Have any genetically modified (GM) additives or preservatives been used?

6. The Facts
In the past few years there has been a rapid growth in the demand for organic food.
As the world becomes smaller as a result of technological advances and consumers are made more aware of the conditions in which products are made, consumers in industrialised (rich) countries are developing a conscience and are demanding higher standards, fair trade agreements and ethical trading policies to support developing countries. Helping them to help themselves!

7. What is Fair-Trade?

8. Fair Trade is all about making
What is Fair-Trade?
Fair Trade is all about making
sure the people that
grow or make the things
we buy get a fair price
for what they do
Write this down in your books

9. Watch this video and makes note listing which products are Fair Trade

10. In pairs or groups
List at least 10 Fair Trade Products

11. Often it is the people far away who grow foods, such as cocoa beans for your bar of chocolate, who are the ones who get the worst deal from what you buy.
Instead, it is the big international companies and advertising agencies who take most of the profits

12. “In the morning we drink coffee provided for us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a
West African. Before we leave for our jobs we’re already indebted to more than half the world.”
Martin Luther King * `

13. Who Benefits? List ways in which the following people benefit from Fair Trade
The Farmer
Retailer
Consumer
In pairs match the statement with the person or business who benefits

14. Fair Trade is a matter of Conscience
Who Benefits? List ways in which the following people benefit from Fair Trade
The Farmer
Retailer
Consumer
Makes more money
Develops business skills
Contributes to sustainable development
Grows higher quality products
Enables people to help take care of themselves
Send children to school – making their futures better
Better or High Quality Product leads to increased sales
Helps Business
Ethically Sourced – means retailers are more knowledgeable about where product comes from. Can be sourced back to producer.
More Choice
Effective way to change the world
Fair Trade is a matter of Conscience

15. Literacy……Key Words
Fair Trade – a trading system that makes sure that people who grow or make the product get a fair price for their work.
Ethical Trading – a system were companies have agreed rules about their trading practices. This includes how they treat their workers, making sure the environment is protected and their workers respected.
It puts human need before greed and profit.

16. Companies selling Fair Trade Goods
Look for the fair trade logo!
Can you add of any more?

17. The Clean Clothes Campaign Code for Garment Workers Ensures:
Freedom to join a trade union
No discrimination
No forced or slave labour
No workers under 15 years of age
Health & safety checks
48 hour working week maximum
A fair wage

18. How many of you buy your clothes from here?
Why has Primark been in the News?

20. What would you do if you were the Prime Minister?
Primark changed their buying choices based on consumer boycotting Discuss in groups and pairs: back up your opinions
Would anyone consider boycotting (not buying) goods from a store that exploited the Third World? now?
Should the Government force these large Multi-National Companies to trade in a more responsible and ethical way?
What would you do if you were the Prime Minister?

21. Questions
Why do you think it is important for companies to have an ethical and fair trading policy?
What do you think needs to be done so that you know more about the goods you are buying?
What would cause you to boycott stores and goods?
How can you as a consumer apply pressure on a large multi-national company?

22. Reflection Time!
Make a list of at least 5 products that you might be interested in buying as Fair-Trade items in British Supermarkets and Stores

23. Reflection time: Getting involved
What can you do?
Would you buy Fair Trade products from Sirius Academy?