"What is fair trade?" - A Presentation Angeliki Papageorgiou (Zanneio Model Experimental Junior High School)

1. What is fair trade?
• Fair trade is international
non-governmental, non-profit
organisation .
• It is trying to secure a better
future for farmers and workers
of developing countries.
• Fair trade is also a social movement
• Fair trade is an alternative approach
to conventional trade based on a
partnership between producers and
consumers
• Fair trade is trying to fight poverty
and the injustices of conventional
trade.

2. What are the aims of fair trade?
• Fair trade supports the small
producers of the developing
world.
Small producers can improve
their lives and plan for their
future
• Fair trade fights against poverty
• Fair trade supports sustainability
and the protection of the
environment
• Fair trade promotes informed
consumer choices
Consumers choose the fair trade
products and help to create a
fairer economic system and
fairer trading rules.

3. Fair trade and child labour
Hundrends of children work in cocoa Plantations in West Africa
under terrible conditions. They don’t go to school, they are
undernourished, abused, tortured. Many of them were taken away
from their families by force and they are treated as real slaves by the
plantation owners. They cannot return to their families
THEY HAVE NEVER TASTED CHOCOLATE IN THEIR LIVES.

4. Fair trade products
• The most common fair
trade products are:
• bananas
• chocolate
• coffee
• tea
• sugar
• cotton

5. What is the fair trade premium?
• Fair trade helps producers to get
a better price for their products.
It can guarantee a minimum
price for the products of small
producers. This minimum price
protects the producers, creates
jobs for millions of workers and
improves their living conditions.
• Extra money is paid on top of the
fair trade minimum price.
Farmers invest this money (the
fair trade premium) in social,
environmental and economic
development projects. This way,
they can help their businesses
and their communities.
• Fair trade prices and Fair trade
premium mean:
• Better prices for the producers
• Better working conditions
• Fair trade conditions for farmers
and workers
• Better living conditions for
farmers, workers and their
families
• Protection of the environment-
Sustainability
A BETTER FUTURE FOR EVERYONE