1. What is your weekly choc count? Aim: This is to give some idea about how much chocolate features in most people’s daily lives. Each person estimates how many bars of chocolate they’ve eaten in the last week. Work out how much each person has spent on chocolate, assuming that each chocolate bar costs 40p. Now calculate how much money the whole group has spent on chocolate in the past week.

2. Chocolate is now the biggest sector of the £18billion European confectionery market. Valued at £3.2bn in 1996, the UK had the highest chocolate sales in Europe. Each person in Britain spends more than £54.15 per head per year, which is more than twice the European average of £28.93. On average, each person consumes 200 bars of chocolate per year. It is big business!!

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6. And that’s just the farmer.. What is the connection with this lesson?

7. Learning objectives: To know if international trade is fair to small producers To understand how the terms of trade can be made fairer for everyone Learning outcomes: To be able to describe the extent to which international trade is fair To be able to explain using named examples of products and places how trade is made fairer

8. “Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you’ve depended on more than half the world”. Martin Luther King Discuss why this is true

10. Let’s change our world for the better

11. The chocolate challenge – can you tell the difference? Aim: participants assess the relative merits of fair trade and non-fair trade chocolate Each student should record their findings in their book under the headings taste, texture and overall quality. Score each sample out of 10. Writer these down now. They then taste Chocolate A and judge this according to the criteria, they then note down their comments and marks. They then do the same for Chocolate B. A discussion about what they think about fair trade chocolate in comparison with the non-fair trade What would persuade you to buy the fairtrade chocolate?

12. Fairtrade Foundation The story of how the first Fairtrade chocolate came to the UK

15. Commodity Prices in Real Terms: Cocoa

23. Is international trade fair to small producers?  Look at the graphs for World Commodity prices:  What is the common trend for cotton, rubber, sugar and coffee?  Look at the graph that compares Fairtrade prices with the New York Stock exchange prices:  What is the trend? Is fairtrade, fair?

24. World Commodity Prices in Real Terms: Cotton

25. World Commodity Prices in Real Terms: Rubber

26. World Commodity Prices in Real Terms: Sugar

27. World Commodity Prices in Real Terms: Coffee

28. Comparison of world cocoa prices and Fairtrade prices

30. Divine Chocolate

31. Kuapa Kokoo water well

32. Kuapa Kokoo Schools

36. Providing workers in developing countries with a fair wage on which they can feed, educate and medically provide for themselves and their children. What is Fairtrade?

37. How? Fairtrade cuts out the middleman meaning more profit goes to the farmer

38. What does it mean to me? Supporting Fairtrade means that you can make a real difference to the world. The products taste great. They cost the same as leading brands.

39. What products are Fairtrade? Any product carrying the Fairtrade symbol. You can buy many products Fairtrade: coffee, jewellery, clothes, wine, to name a few

40. Where can I get Fairtrade? All the leading supermarkets sell at least some fair trade products. - CO-OP is the best - ASDA - Sainsbury’s - Tesco’s Some even have their own Fairtrade brands

43. Lets make things better buy Fairtrade