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A Christian Response to Systemic Injustice
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Half the world – nearly three billion people – live on less than two dollars a
day.
www.globalissues.org
Extreme Poverty
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Food Insecurity
• Worldwide around 925 million people are chronically hungry due to extreme poverty, while up to 2 billion people lack food security intermittently due to varying degrees of poverty (source: FAO, 2010).
• Six million children die of hunger every year – 17,000 every day (Ban Ki Moon, 2009)
• Meanwhile in the West we have an “obesity epidemic” – in UK more than 20% are obese
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Worker1p
Farm Owner
5p
Shipper4p
Importer/Ripener
7p
Supermarket
13p
An Example: The Banana Trade
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• Trade with a bias towards the poor
• Ensuring a guaranteed fair price for the producer
• A social premium for health, education and welfare
• Fair working conditions for producers
• Trade with a development objective
• Enabling producers to work their way out of poverty
• Challenging unfair trade rules
What is Fair Trade? (1)
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What is Fair Trade? (2)
• A practical response to the unfairness of current global trade
• An internationally recognised set of standards• A “kitemark” to show products are fairly traded• A large market place:-
– More than 1m Fairtrade certified producers– Worth more than US$1 bn per year– £799m was spent on Fairtrade goods in the UK in
2009
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Look for the these logos on products:
The Traidcraft product logo
The Fairtrade Mark
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Trade
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Support
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Influence
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Buy
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Buy
• Buy products from your local Fair Trader
• Shop online at www.traidcraftshop.co.uk
• Look out for Traidcraft products (e.g. Geobars) in supermarkets
• Order from our catalogue
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Give
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Give
• Donation – cash, cheque, credit card
• Standing order
• Leave a legacy
• Fundraising events – coffee mornings
• Sponsored runs/walks. Check out www.traidcraft.co.uk
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Campaign
Supermarkets Watchdog
Raw MaterialsStop EPAs
(Economic Partnership Agreements)
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• Fair trade is about making trade work for the poor
Summary
• Traidcraft offers practical assistance to help producers lift themselves out of poverty
• Together we can make a difference
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Any Questions?
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To Find out more
• 2009/10 Fairtrade Foundation Annual Review http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/what_is_fairtrade/annual_reports.aspx
• The Fairtrade Labelling Organisation http://www.fairtrade.net/all_standards.html
• The Latin American and Caribbean Network of Small Fair Trade Producers (CLAC)http://www.clac-pequenosproductores.org/english/profile/mission.html
• Traidcraftwww.traidcraft.co.uk