Activity 2

What do you Know about Fair trade?

Fair trade is becomming a growing issue in the Commercial Industry today.Society groups such as Oxfam and other Non Govermental Organistions strive for a fairer business world. The Fair trade introduction simply encourages business's to buy their rawmaterials at a suitable and fair price from the producers.Indeed in Ireland there are thousands of products which are fairtrade certified.

Part (A):

 I would like you to get into pairs, and in your pairs I would like you to research and answer the following questions about fairtrade:(the website links beneath will help you):


1.      What is fair-trade and what are its objectives?
2.      What kinds of products are linked with fair-trade?
3.      How can a product become fair-trade certified?
4.      How does fair-trade benefit the producers?


Websites:

Part (B ):
 Watch the following video on fair trade below: