Go Fair Trade - Pre-conference backgrounder
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Who really pays for the products we buy?
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Going Bananas
This is the route that a typical banana takes to get from the banana plantation to our supermarkets ....
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Step 1: Banana Farm Workers
• Long hours• Have to carry heavy loads• Work in the hot sun • Have to handle dangerous chemicals
Going Bananas
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Step 2: Plantation Landowners • Have to pay the pickers • Make sure land & equipment are in good shape • Need to ensure enough bananas are grown
Going Bananas
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Going Bananas
Step 3: Shipping Company
• Make sure bananas aren’t damaged on the trip • Keep big ships in good working condition • Buy fuel for large ships
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Step 4: Importer
• Receive bananas from shipping company • Do paperwork for bananas to enter the country
Going Bananas
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Going Bananas
Step 5: Wholesaler
• Store the bananas in a large warehouse facility • Artificially ripen the bananas so they’re ready for us to eat
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Step 6: Processor
• Throws away any rotten bananas • Prepares banana bunches to go onto supermarket shelves
Going Bananas
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Going Bananas
Step 7: Distributor
•Delivers bananas to supermarkets• Must put fuel into large trucks• Must maintain large trucks in good working order
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Going Bananas
Step 8: Retailer (supermarket)
• Stocks bananas on shelves• Must pay employees who work in the store
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Going Bananas
So, it looks something like this:Banana Farm
Workers (Honduras)
Plantation Landowners (Honduras)
Shipping Company
(USA)Importer (USA)
Wholesaler (USA)
Processor (USA)
Distributor (Canada)
Retailer (Canada)
Each time the bananas change hands, people need to be paid
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Going Bananas
To make things easy, we are going to pretend that the price of this
banana is $1.00
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Going Bananas
Now that you know what each person along the way does, how
much of the $1.00 price do you
think each one deserves for the work that they do? Decide as a group & write down your guesses
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Going Bananas
Banana Farm Workers = ______ ¢Plantation Landowners = ______ ¢Shipping Company = ______ ¢Importer = ______ ¢Wholesaler = ______ ¢Processor = ______ ¢Distributor = ______ ¢Retailer = ______ ¢
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Going Bananas
Here’s the reality .....
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Going Bananas
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Food for thought
How close were your answers?
Why do you think your guesses were close, or different from, the reality?
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Food for thought
In which country did most of the money stay?
Why do you think most of the money ended up there?
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Food for thought
Do you think this system is fair?
If you answered NO, then what is not fair about it? How can we change this system?
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Where we are NOW
We have been using this system for decades to buy & sell products. The main goal of this system is for consumers to buy a lot, but pay little.
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How can we focus more on money than on the people that actually make the things we buy?
Where we are NOW
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Where we are GOING
At MCIC’s Generating Momentum for Our World: Go Fair Trade you will learn what fair trade is doing to bring the focus back to the farmers and improve the quality of life for millions around the world!