Fairtrade

Question 1

When did the fairtrade movement begin and where?

Answer 1

Europe in the 1960s

Question 2

What is the fairtrade movement based on?

Answer 2

Ensuring that workers in developing countries are paid a fair wage

Question 3

What does fairtrade aim to address?(2)

Answer 3

• Poverty

* To empower producers and workers so they have control of their future

Question 4

What are fairtrade products labelled according to the standard of?

Answer 4

Faitrade labelling organisations international

Question 5

What do fairtrade include standards of?

Answer 5

Minimum requirement for social, economic and environmental wellbeing of local communities

Question 6

Why do many Australian dairy farmers believe they aren’t receiving a fair price for their produce

Answer 6

Because when they bring their product to a supermarket giant and they don’t offer them a fair price ( due to priding themselves on selling affordable staple items ), the farmers may have no other choice because their only option is to sell their product to earn some sort of a profit, even if it isn’t much considering how much money they actually spend on producing it