Reducing gloabl equality - Fair Trade
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- Created on: 02-03-17 11:30
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- Fair Trade
- Companies who want to sell products labelled 'fair trade' have to pay producers a fair price
- Earning more money means the country can spend more on development
- Buyers also pay extra on top of the fair price to help develop the area where the goods came from eg build schools, health centres
- Only producers that treat their employees well can take part in the scheme.
- Producers aren't allowed to discriminate based on sex or race
- Improves quality of life for employees
- Employees must have a safe working environment
- Improves quality of life for employees
- Employees must have a safe working environment
- Producers aren't allowed to discriminate based on sex or race
- Producers in a fair trade scheme often produce a lot because of good prices - this can create an excess
- This causes a fall in world prices
- Producers who aren't in the fair trade scheme lose out
- 5 million people in 58 countries benefit from Fair Trade
- Includes tea, coffee, sugar, chocolate
- Companies who want to sell products labelled 'fair trade' have to pay producers a fair price
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