A Christian Response to Systemic Injustice

A Christian Response to Systemic Injustice

Half the world – nearly three billion people – live on less than two dollars a

day.

www.globalissues.org

Extreme Poverty

Food Insecurity

• Worldwide around 925 million people are chronically hungry due to extreme poverty, while up to 2 billion people lack food security intermittently due to varying degrees of poverty (source: FAO, 2010).

• Six million children die of hunger every year – 17,000 every day (Ban Ki Moon, 2009)

• Meanwhile in the West we have an “obesity epidemic” – in UK more than 20% are obese

Worker1p

Farm Owner

5p

Shipper4p

Importer/Ripener

7p

Supermarket

13p

An Example: The Banana Trade

• Trade with a bias towards the poor

• Ensuring a guaranteed fair price for the producer

• A social premium for health, education and welfare

• Fair working conditions for producers

• Trade with a development objective

• Enabling producers to work their way out of poverty

• Challenging unfair trade rules

What is Fair Trade? (1)

What is Fair Trade? (2)

• A practical response to the unfairness of current global trade

• An internationally recognised set of standards• A “kitemark” to show products are fairly traded• A large market place:-

– More than 1m Fairtrade certified producers– Worth more than US$1 bn per year– £799m was spent on Fairtrade goods in the UK in

2009

Look for the these logos on products:

The Traidcraft product logo

The Fairtrade Mark

Trade

Support

Influence

Buy

Buy

• Buy products from your local Fair Trader

• Shop online at www.traidcraftshop.co.uk

• Look out for Traidcraft products (e.g. Geobars) in supermarkets

• Order from our catalogue

Give

Give

• Donation – cash, cheque, credit card

• Standing order

• Leave a legacy

• Fundraising events – coffee mornings

• Sponsored runs/walks. Check out www.traidcraft.co.uk

Campaign

Supermarkets Watchdog

Raw MaterialsStop EPAs

(Economic Partnership Agreements)

• Fair trade is about making trade work for the poor

Summary

• Traidcraft offers practical assistance to help producers lift themselves out of poverty

• Together we can make a difference

Any Questions?

To Find out more

• 2009/10 Fairtrade Foundation Annual Review http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/what_is_fairtrade/annual_reports.aspx

• The Fairtrade Labelling Organisation http://www.fairtrade.net/all_standards.html

• The Latin American and Caribbean Network of Small Fair Trade Producers (CLAC)http://www.clac-pequenosproductores.org/english/profile/mission.html

• Traidcraftwww.traidcraft.co.uk