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Empowering Producers: A Fair Trade Introduction

Discover the essence of Fair Trade, fair pricing, social premiums, and environmental protection. Explore how Fair Trade certification benefits producers like Howard in Malawi. Unveil the history, timeline, and impact of the Fair Trade movement globally and in Scotland. Learn about Fair Trade Nations, community involvement, Scottish Parliament's role, and how you can support Fair Trade by buying ethically sourced products and raising awareness.

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Empowering Producers: A Fair Trade Introduction

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  1. An introduction to Fair Trade <Insert Name>

  2. Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you’ve depended on more than half the world. • Martin Luther King

  3. What is Fair Trade?

  4. Fair price for goods • Social premium • Better trading conditions • Environmental protection

  5. FairtradeorFair Trade?

  6. Fair Tradecertification schemes Commodities Manufactured products

  7. What does Fair Trade mean for producers?

  8. Howard Msukwa Karonga district in northern Malawi Kilombero rice

  9. Farming in Malawi No machinery No artificial irrigation Hard to compete

  10. How Fair Trade helps NASFAM Local farmers’ groups Co-operatives

  11. What this means for Howard • Built a new house • School fees

  12. History of the Fair Trade movement

  13. Timeline 1989 – Global coffee prices collapsed, with some farmers losing up to 70% of their income. Demand for Fair Trade goods increased. 1827 – ‘Free Produce Society’ formed in the US, which boycotted products made by slaves. Late 1940s – Overseas charities begin selling fairly traded handicrafts. 1965 – Oxfam launched the ‘Helping-by-Selling’ programme. 2002– Aberfeldy and Strathaven become the first Fairtrade towns in Scotland. 2013 – Scotland becomes a Fair Trade Nation. 1988 - First Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, launched in the Netherlands. The first product was coffee from Mexico.

  14. 1994 - the first UK product receives Fairtrade certification – Green & Black’s ‘Maya Gold’ chocolate bar, using cocoa from Belize. Clipper tea and Cafédirect coffee were the next two products to be certified Fairtrade shortly afterwards.

  15. Fairtrade Towns

  16. Fair Trade in Scotland

  17. What is a Fair Trade Nation? Community involvement: • Local authority areas • Fairtrade Town groups • Levels of awareness and buying of Fair Trade Scottish Parliament: • Use and promote Fair Trade products Scottish Government: • Public sector procurement • Curriculum

  18. Why become a Fair Trade Nation?

  19. What can I do to support Fair Trade? • Buy Fair Trade products • Encourage friends and family to buy Fair Trade products • Speak to local shops and businesses • Write to/email companies • Spread the word - join (or start) a Fair Trade group

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