What is your weekly choc count? Aim: This is to give some idea about how much chocolate features in...
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What is your weekly choc count? Aim : This is to give some idea about how much chocolate features in most people’s daily lives. Each person estimates how many bars of chocolate they’ve eaten in the last week. Work out how much each person has spent on chocolate, assuming that each chocolate bar costs 40p. Now calculate how much money the whole group has spent on chocolate in the past week.
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What is your weekly choc count?
Aim: This is to give some idea about how much chocolate features in most people’s daily lives.
Each person estimates how many bars of chocolate they’ve eaten in the last week.
Work out how much each person has spent on chocolate, assuming that each chocolate bar costs 40p.
Now calculate how much money the whole group has spent on chocolate in the past week.
Chocolate is now the biggest sector of the £18billion European confectionery market.
Valued at £3.2bn in 1996, the UK had the highest chocolate sales in Europe.
Each person in Britain spends more than £54.15 per head per year, which is more than
twice the European average of £28.93.
On average, each person consumes 200 bars of chocolate per year.
It is big business!!
Squeezed..
Crushed..
Ground down..
And that’s just the farmer..
What is the connection with this
lesson?
Learning objectives:
• To know if international trade is fair to small producers
• To understand how the terms of trade can be made fairer for everyone
Learning outcomes:
• To be able to describe the extent to which international trade is fair
• To be able to explain using named examples of products and places how trade is made fairer
“Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you’ve depended on more than half the world”.
Martin Luther King
Discuss why this is true
Let’s change our world
for the better
The chocolate challenge – can you tell the difference?
Aim: participants assess the relative merits of fair trade and non-fair trade chocolate
Each student should record their findings in their book under the headings taste, texture and overall quality. Score each sample out of 10. Writer these down now.
They then taste Chocolate A and judge this according to the criteria, they then note down their comments and marks.
They then do the same for Chocolate B.
A discussion about what they think about fair trade chocolate in comparison with the non-fair trade
What would persuade you to buy the fairtrade chocolate?
Fairtrade Foundation
The story of how the first Fairtrade chocolate came to the UK
Commodity Prices in Real Terms: Cocoa
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The FAIRTRADE Mark means:
•Farmers receive a fair and stable price for their products
•Producer groups receive a premium to invest in
improving their communities and businesses
•Greater respect for the environment
•Small farmers have a stronger position in world markets
•A closer link between shoppers and producers
Is international trade fair to small producers?
Look at the graphs for World Commodity prices:
What is the common trend for cotton, rubber, sugar and coffee?
Look at the graph that compares Fairtrade prices with the New York Stock exchange prices:
What is the trend? Is fairtrade, fair?
World Commodity Prices in Real Terms: Cotton
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World Commodity Prices in Real Terms: Sugar
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Comparison of world cocoa prices and Fairtrade prices
Divine Chocolate
Kuapa Kokoowater well
Kuapa KokooSchools
Providing workers in developing countries with a fair wage on
which they can feed, educate and medically provide for themselves
and their children.
What is Fairtrade?
How?
Fairtrade cuts out the
middleman
meaning more
profit goes to
the farmer
What does it mean to me?
Supporting Fairtrade means that you can make a real difference to the world.
The products taste great.
They cost the same as
leading brands.
What products are Fairtrade?
Any product carrying the Fairtrade symbol.
You can buy many products Fairtrade:coffee, jewellery,clothes, wine, to name a few
Where can I get Fairtrade?
All the leading supermarkets sell at least some
fair trade products.
- CO-OP is the best
- ASDA
- Sainsbury’s
- Tesco’s
Some even have their own Fairtrade brands
Lets make things better
buy Fairtrade
