Many countries in the Majority World are dependant on cash crops to provide jobs and earn foreign exchange to repay debts or import goods and services. However, many producers do not get a fair price that will give workers a reasonable quality of life and there is often long term damage to the environment.

Teaching resources

All You Need For A Fair Trade Assembly RISC KS2-4 £2.50 + p&p
Three adaptable 15 minute assemblies, focusing on different Fair Trade products: chocolate, bananas, clothes/fashion.

Bananas & (Cocoa) Beans RISC, 2003 KS2 £5.00 + p&p
Investigates our links with people across the globe through trade in food and drink products. Includes teacher information, pupil activities and photocopiable materials.
 

Choc-a-lot RISC, 2003 £5 KS 2-4 & 16+, Youth & Community groups
This pack is for teachers and youth workers and provides a detailed outline of activities for a day workshop which introduces young people to the issues behind the global chocolate industry. Themes include: the role of chocolate in our lives, how chocolate is made, how the big chocolate companies increase their profits at the cost of cocoa farmers, the role of fair trade and how to take further action to demand better conditions for producers.

Cost of Coffee RISC, 2005 KS4-16+ £7.50 + p&p
Pack which investigates the global trade in coffee, focusing in particular on the crisis facing coffee farmers. Activities examine the causes and impact of the crisis faced by 25 million small coffee farmers worldwide due to low world prices. Analysis of the response of the big coffee companies and the issue of corporate social responsibility.

Growing Bananas RISC, 2005 KS2-3 £5 + p&p
A whole class trading game with background information including photos of the production process.

Find Your Way Through Trade Oxfam KS1-2 free download
A simple introduction to global trade starting with everyday supermarket items. Includes images of farmers producing coffee, cocoa, bananas.

Papapaa Comic relief KS2-3 £8
DVD and photopack on how cocoa is harvested, traded, processed and retailed. Looks at the benefits of fair trade and how one school launched an awareness campaign. Can be adapted for KS4. Recommended.

Weblinks

Milking It is an interactive online KS4 resource about world trade, produced by Oxfam. Using the lives of two farmers from Wales and Jamaica, students learn about the impact of unfair world trade rules.

Papapaa website includes free resources about the cocoa supply chain and webcasts made by children of cocoa farmers.

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