Good and Bad impacts

Kenya 135,000 employed growing flowers for UK market World’s 3 rd biggest flower grower – mainly red roses! second biggest export earner for Kenya 110,000 tonnes of flowers exported mainly to Europe

consumer demand for Fair Trade Products. Brecon a Fair trade town since % extra of price goes to the producer for £1 worth of bananas this is 3p up to 4.5p! producers can improve wages for workers and can afford to send their children to school

 Companies like Primark stung by bad publicity now keen to make sure workers in LEDC supplier factories have decent working conditions and wages.  Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh  Don’t buy £2 T shirts – exploits workers abroad.

 36,000 identified cases of child labour in India in 16 years.  government statistics point to around 17 million child labourers in India  Anyone employing a child under 14 could get a 4 year jail term  Children missing out on education  Abused and exploited – paid a pittance

 Rana Plaza factory Bangladesh – over 1000 deaths 2013  4 deadly fire incidents in last 12 months too

Garment Industry in Bangladesh:  It already employs 4m, mostly women, in a country with 31m households.  It has 5,000 factories, compared with 2,500 in Indonesia and 2,000 in Vietnam. Its labour costs less than any of its Asian rivals’  But profitability has slumped. In the past five years the price paid for a garment has fallen 12%

 Ethical consumers want to reduce their carbon footprint …  … But how would this affect farm labourer’s wages in LEDCs – like Kenyan flower pickers?