Campaigners have declared Wales as the first Fair Trade country. The Welsh have been working towards the accolade since 2006. More than 1,000 volunteers have helped to persuade 58 towns, 380 schools and groups in all 22 Welsh counties to commit to learning about fair trade and use fair trade products.
Doesnt seem so hard really does it?
7 Comments
13 June, 2008 at 3:43 pm
wow i have a step-sister who is at regent college and apparently people have been going round with petitions for fair trade to be in their college, however wouldn’t everything (at regent and wales) be extremely expensive
13 June, 2008 at 7:39 pm
You are right, Fairtrade does mean that products are that little bit more expensive as a premium is added which is ear marked to go straight to the farmers.
Would you be willing to pay that little bit more knowing that farmers in developing countries will get a fair price for their products?
I wonder what the rest of EM would think too?
13 June, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Ye that is the only prblem with Fairtrade. It is not of much use to poorer people.
13 June, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Do you mean the poorer people in developed countries? Or the poorer people in the countries which the fairtrade organisation is trying to help?
Can we compare “poor” people in our country to poor people in less economically developed countries?
14 June, 2008 at 12:14 pm
There is poverty everywhere in the world
18 June, 2008 at 4:50 pm
well lets face it if there is a biscuit for 25p and then a fairtrade biscuits for 50p, then most people will buy the cheaper one. i think that the teachers are more likely to buy the 50p ones though
18 June, 2008 at 6:37 pm
But would people be more likely to buy the cheaper biscuit? I would hope with a bit of education they would choose Fairtrade products.
http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/press_office/press_releases_and_statements/archive_2007/aug_2007/global_fairtrade_sales_increase_by_40_benefiting_14_million_farmers_worldwide.aspx
I would like to think that teachers would buy Fairtrade products because we do get paid a decent amount of money compared to some.