Fair Trade

By: Ryan Hall

What is Fair Trade? Source 1

Fair trade is an organized social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in developing country to make better trading conditions and promote sustainability.

Fair Trade is a different way of doing business. It's about making principles of fairness.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/audio/2012/feb/27/fair-trade-podcast

Start at 1:30 And also 3:10

Source 2

The farmers need to come first! Farmers around the world who produce

these different goods need to be treated fairly.

They have families and lives just like us and they need to be able to sustain themselves and be paid fairly for all there work.

http://fairtradeusa.org/images/mov_feature.swf

Source 3

This is a news report from August 2010 talking about a local cocoa farmer from Ghana West Africa who enlisted Canadian support for fair trade.

http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100823/CGY_fair_trade_cocoa_100823/20100823?hub=CalgaryHome