Fair Trade

Question 1

Whilst consumers benefit from cheap goods as a result of the global shift, more and more consumers have ethical concerns about worker exploitation

Ethical purchases are becoming

Answer 1

increasingly available as a result of NGOs, charities and a range of businesses

Question 2

Fairtrade what is it

Answer 2

The Fairtrade certification scheme offers a guaranteed higher income to farmers and better environmental production

Examples of Fair trade products: coffee, bananas, chocolate,clothes

Question 3

Fairtrade advantages

Answer 3

Fair trade goods inform consumers that what they have spent on the product will reach the farmers

Question 4

Fairtrade disadvantages

Answer 4

The product is usually a higher price than a non-fair trade product - the customer pays more meaning often the products do not sell and the farmers do not make the money they thought they would.

Question 5

When did Starbucks announce all coffee fairtrade

Answer 5

2009

Question 6

Where does Starbucks source there coffee

Answer 6

Costa Rica

Question 7

What percentage of Starbucks’s coffee is Fairtrade

Answer 7

8.5%