1. How can Fairtrade help reduce the
gap between MEDC’s and LEDC’s?
How can Fairtrade help reduce the gap between MEDC’s and LEDC’s?

2. Why is Manual now able to send
his daughter to school?
Look at the cards and see if you can
answer the question!
How can Fairtrade help reduce the gap between MEDC’s and LEDC’s?

3. What is Fair Trade?
• It guarantees a better deal
for Third World Producers.
• Fairtrade is a means of helping
small-scale and other
disadvantaged producers in
developing countries.
• Helps farmers to grow crops
without using harmful chemical
pesticides and fertilisers.
How can Fairtrade help reduce the gap between MEDC’s and LEDC’s?

4. What is Fair Trade?
• When people in the supermarkets
in England buy Fair Trade products
they know that the farmers and
growers are getting a fair price
for their products.
• Fair trade farmers exist all over the world and
grow lots of different products such as honey,
oranges, cocoa for chocolate, tea and coffee.
How can Fairtrade help reduce the gap between MEDC’s and LEDC’s?

5. How does Fair Trade effect
LEDC farmers?
My name is Manuel Dunaguala and I am a real
banana farmer in Ecuador.
Let me introduce you to my family and where I
live in the world.
This is my wife, brother and Sandra; my eldest
daughter.
How can Fairtrade help reduce the gap between MEDC’s and LEDC’s?

6. I live on a small farm in El Guabo
just outside Machala in Ecuador.
How can Fairtrade help reduce the gap between MEDC’s and LEDC’s?

7. What was my life like before Fair Trade?
When I was growing up life was really hard. I worked on
the farm with my family from 7 in the morning until 8 in
the evening.
About 10 years ago the price of my bananas started to
fall rapidly. This was because lots of other countries
were now producing bananas and if I didn’t reduce the
price of my bananas I wouldn’t be able to sell any at all. I
was struggling to look after my family properly.
Back then we were spraying the banana trees with
chemicals so that the insects didn’t destroy them.
Sometimes I got some of this spray into my eyes and it
really stung, so badly that it hurt to open them and I
had to stay in bed for a few days.
Thankfully all this changed 5 years ago…
How can Fairtrade help reduce the gap between MEDC’s and LEDC’s?

8. That was when my farm become part of
the local Fair Trade cooperative and now
I am able to;
-Earn more money, this is why I have
been able to send my daughter to
school.
- Use less harmful methods of
farming, as I have covered my
bananas in plastic bags as they grow I
have not used any chemicals on the
bananas
- Spend more time with my family.
- Enjoy being part of a community.
How can Fairtrade help reduce the gap between MEDC’s and LEDC’s?

9. Fairtrade Cocoa – Devine
Chocolate
• Choose one of the videos below to watch and as you
watch write down what the benefits of Fair-trade have
been for the people in Ghana;
– The Recorder. A man explains what he does as a recorder in the
FT cooperation.
– Getting an Education. A girls expalins the new benefits for her of
going to school.
– Empowerment for Women. One lady explains what the benefits
are of FT for women.
– Why our cocoa is papapaa! One farmer explains why his
chocolate is so good.
– The well. The benefit of a new well.

10. Bananas being grown in plastic bags on a
plantation, a large farm for exports.

11. Assessment TASK! Persuasive writing
• You need to imagine that you are a Fair Trade cocoa farmer in Ghana and that you
are writing a letter to Tesco’s to try to make them sell more fair trade chocolate.
Remember this is persuasive writing. You need to explain the benefits for you as a
farmer and how your life has benefited from Fair Trade.
• Try to include the following words and all the information you collected from your
research;
• Fair Trade LEDC guaranteed income chemicals family
co-operative
• Remember;
It means that as a farmer you now;
• Get a fair price for your crops – how do you spend the money?
• Have a guaranteed income each month for the cocoa– how does that help
you plan for the future?
• You work ‘normal hours’ and can spend time with you family and friends.
This assessment will start
today!
How can Fairtrade help reduce the gap between MEDC’s and LEDC’s?

12. Assessment TASK! Persuasive writing
• You need to imagine that you are a Fair Trade cocoa farmer in Ghana and that you
are writing a letter to Tesco’s to try to make them sell more fair trade chocolate.
Remember this is persuasive writing. You need to explain the benefits for you as a
farmer and how your life has benefited from Fair Trade.
Planning Grid
What I am going to write
Introduction What life is like in Ghana?
What I do?
Paragraph1
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 5
Conclusion
How can Fairtrade help reduce the gap between MEDC’s and LEDC’s?

13. • This is the
assessment
marking grid
that will be
used to mark
your work. I
will give you a
copy next
lesson to help
you writing
up your work.
How can Fairtrade help reduce the gap between MEDC’s and LEDC’s?