fair trade assembly secondary by arnold smith. outline introduce a product for you to identify how...
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Fair Trade Assembly
Secondary
By Arnold Smith
OUTLINE
• Introduce a product for you to identify
• How it gets to us & who is involved
• How what we pay for it is shared
• How this is being changed
IT’S ONE OF THE 4 MOST VALUABLE FOOD CROPS
IN THE WORLD• Produced by the world’s largest HERB
IT’S ONE OF THE 4 MOST VALUABLE FOOD CROPS
IN THE WORLD• Produced by the world’s largest HERB
• Produced all year
IT’S ONE OF THE 4 MOST VALUABLE FOOD CROPS
IN THE WORLD• Produced by the world’s largest HERB
• Produced all year
• Produced together with:
Fibre for paper and cloth
Flour for cooking
Leaves for plates, wrapping and roofing
Sap used as glue
• It’s the most popular fruit in Europe & N America – eaten raw or cooked (baked or fried).
SOME MORE CLUES
• It’s the most popular fruit in Europe & N America – eaten raw or cooked (baked or fried).
• It’s grown in over 100 tropical countries around the world.
SOME MORE CLUES
• It’s the most popular fruit in Europe & N America – eaten raw or cooked (baked or fried).
• It’s grown in over 100 tropical countries around the world.
• It came originally from SE Asia (Malaysia, Papua, New Guinea).
SOME MORE CLUES
• It’s the most popular fruit in Europe & N America – eaten raw or cooked (baked or fried).
• It’s grown in over 100 tropical countries around the world.
• It came originally from SE Asia (Malaysia, Papua, New Guinea).
• It’s name comes from the Arabic for ‘FINGER’.
SOME MORE CLUES
Wild bananawith manyhard seeds
Cooking and dessert bananas
TRAVELS OF A BANANAThe first 7000 years
TRAVELS OF A BANANAThe next 1000 years
TRAVELS OF A BANANAAnother 400 years
TRAVELS OF A BANANAThe final stage
THE BANANA TRADE
• Each year 2.5bn tonnes (worth $10bn) are exported (10-15% world crop)
• 10 million people in 25 countries depend on banana trade for a living
• Dominated by 3 powerful companies – Chiquita, Dole and Del Monte (66% of the export trade)
BANANA SPLIT
Start with a banana plant on a plantation in Ecuador in South America and follow the journey its fruit makes to a shop near you.
How does it get to its destination?
Who is involved?
What is their role?
What does it involve?
BANANA SPLIT
• Plantation worker• Plantation owner• Exporter/shipper• Importer/ripener/wholesaler• Shop/supermarket
WHO GETS WHAT?Work with 1 banana costing 30p
• Plantation worker• Plantation owner• Exporter/shipper• Importer/ripener/wholesaler• Shop/supermarket
TOTAL
How much?
WHO GETS WHAT?Work with 1 banana costing 30p
• Plantation worker 1p
• Plantation owner 5p
• Exporter/shipper 4p
• Importer/ripener/wholesaler 7p
• Shop/supermarket 13p
How much?ACTUAL
BANANA PRICES
• Dominance of the big 3 companies
• Competition between supermarkets
• Small producers (Windward Islands) and large plantations (Central & S America)
• ‘Banana War’ – 1993 to 2001
• Prices as low as 1/2p per pound (4 bananas) at the plantation
YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT THE CARVE UP
• What do you think about how the 30p we pay is shared?
YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT THE CARVE UP
• What do you think about how the 30p we pay is shared?
• Who benefits most/least?
YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT THE CARVE UP
• What do you think about how the 30p we pay is shared?
• Who benefits most/least?
• Why is it like this?
YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT THE CARVE UP
• What do you think about how the 30p we pay is shared?
• Who benefits most/least?
• Why is it like this?
• What needs to be done to help the least powerful?
FAIRTRADE TERMS
• Pay farmers a guaranteed price that covers the cost of production and the cost of living.
• Sign long term contracts.
• Require good working conditions & care for the environment.
• Make an extra payment – ‘Fairtrade Premium’ – to benefit the whole community.
(an answer to the problems of the Windward Is. producers)
• Year after year, more and more shoppers want to be sure that producers in developing countries are being treated fairly.
• The continued success of Fairtrade in benefitting more than 5 million producers and their families around the world will also depend on the choices YOU make.
