How can Fairtrade help reduce the gap between MEDC’s and

LEDC’s?

How can Fairtrade help reduce the gap between MEDC’s and LEDC’s?

Why is Manual now able to send his daughter to

school?

Look at the cards and see if you can answer the question!

How can Fairtrade help reduce the gap between MEDC’s and LEDC’s?

What is Fair Trade?• It guarantees a better deal

for Third World Producers.

• Fairtrade is a means of helping small-scale and other disadvantaged producers in developing countries.

• Helps farmers to grow crops without using harmful chemical pesticides and fertilisers.

How can Fairtrade help reduce the gap between MEDC’s and LEDC’s?

What is Fair Trade?• When people in the supermarkets in England buy Fair Trade products

they know that the farmers and growers are getting a fair price for their products.

• Fair trade farmers exist all over the world and grow lots of different products such as honey, oranges, cocoa for chocolate, tea and coffee.

How can Fairtrade help reduce the gap between MEDC’s and LEDC’s?

How does Fair Trade effect LEDC farmers?

My name is Manuel Dunaguala and I am a real banana farmer in Ecuador.

Let me introduce you to my family and where I live in the world.

This is my wife, brother and Sandra; my eldest daughter.

How can Fairtrade help reduce the gap between MEDC’s and LEDC’s?

I live on a small farm in El Guabo just outside Machala in Ecuador.

How can Fairtrade help reduce the gap between MEDC’s and LEDC’s?

What was my life like before Fair Trade?

When I was growing up life was really hard. I worked on the farm with my family from 7 in the morning until 8 in the evening.

About 10 years ago the price of my bananas started to fall rapidly. This was because lots of other countries were now producing bananas and if I didn’t reduce the price of my bananas I wouldn’t be able to sell any at all. I was struggling to look after my family properly.

Back then we were spraying the banana trees with chemicals so that the insects didn’t destroy them. Sometimes I got some of this spray into my eyes and it really stung, so badly that it hurt to open them and I had to stay in bed for a few days.

Thankfully all this changed 5 years ago…

How can Fairtrade help reduce the gap between MEDC’s and LEDC’s?

That was when my farm become part of the local Fair Trade cooperative and now I am able to;

-Earn more money, this is why I have been able to send my daughter to school. - Use less harmful methods of farming, as I have covered my bananas in plastic bags as they grow I have not used any chemicals on the bananas- Spend more time with my family. - Enjoy being part of a community.

How can Fairtrade help reduce the gap between MEDC’s and LEDC’s?

Fairtrade Cocoa – Devine Chocolate

• Choose one of the videos below to watch and as you watch write down what the benefits of Fair-trade have been for the people in Ghana; – The Recorder. A man explains what he does as a recorder in the

FT cooperation. – Getting an Education. A girls expalins the new benefits for her of

going to school. – Empowerment for Women. One lady explains what the benefits

are of FT for women. – Why our cocoa is papapaa! One farmer explains why his

chocolate is so good. – The well. The benefit of a new well.

Bananas being grown in plastic bags on a plantation, a large farm for exports.

Assessment TASK! Persuasive writing

• You need to imagine that you are a Fair Trade cocoa farmer in Ghana and that you are writing a letter to Tesco’s to try to make them sell more fair trade chocolate. Remember this is persuasive writing. You need to explain the benefits for you as a farmer and how your life has benefited from Fair Trade.

• Try to include the following words and all the information you collected from your research;

• Fair Trade LEDC guaranteed income chemicals family co-operative

• Remember; It means that as a farmer you now;

• Get a fair price for your crops – how do you spend the money?• Have a guaranteed income each month for the cocoa– how does

that help you plan for the future? • You work ‘normal hours’ and can spend time with you family and

friends.

This assessment will start

today!

How can Fairtrade help reduce the gap between MEDC’s and LEDC’s?

Assessment TASK! Persuasive writing

• You need to imagine that you are a Fair Trade cocoa farmer in Ghana and that you are writing a letter to Tesco’s to try to make them sell more fair trade chocolate. Remember this is persuasive writing. You need to explain the benefits for you as a farmer and how your life has benefited from Fair Trade.

Planning Grid

What I am going to write

Introduction What life is like in Ghana? What I do?

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Paragraph 2

Paragraph 3

Paragraph 4

Paragraph 5

Conclusion

How can Fairtrade help reduce the gap between MEDC’s and LEDC’s?

• This is the assessment marking grid that will be used to mark your work. I will give you a copy next lesson to help you writing up your work.

How can Fairtrade help reduce the gap between MEDC’s and LEDC’s?