tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14391126698887227302024-02-20T09:50:48.429-08:00Is this Fair Trade?Geography Los Molinoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01245469683060581960noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1439112669888722730.post-69202317736719768272010-12-08T05:19:00.000-08:002010-12-08T05:19:54.954-08:00Fair Trade and bananas?<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Fairtrade</strong> began in 1992 when several charities including Oxfam, Traidcraft and Christian Aid set up a non profit making organisation to encourage people in the UK to buy products from Less Economically Developed Countries (LEDCS) at a price that was fair to the producers of the products.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Fairtrade</strong>'s vision is </span><strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">'of a world in which justice and sustainable development are at the heart of trade structures and practices so that everyone, through their work, can maintain a decent and dignified livelihood and develop their full potential'</span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For more information about the organisation go to </span><a href="http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">www.fairtrade.org.uk</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Is this all bananas?</strong></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Ecuador, a poor country in South America, is the world’s biggest exporter of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bananas but workers there are exploited by the wealthy plantation owners. They are paid only 1.90 euros a day and work in unhealthy conditions which can damage their health. People in European supermarkets are often not aware of this when they choose their bananas. </span><br />
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</div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Watch this video on YouTube to see what conditions are like for workers at Los Alamos in Ecuador.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrp7FpJGyqw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrp7FpJGyqw</a></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Please post your comments on this blog. Try to include the following:</span><br />
<ul><li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">your thoughts about the Los Alamos film</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">look at the food in your kitchen - where does it originate from? Where are your bananas from? Does any of your food have a fair trade symbol?</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">what does your family think about buying fair trade products?</span></li>
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