1.  By: Ryan Hall

2.  Fair trade is an organized social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in developing country to make better trading conditions and promote sustainability.  Fair Trade is a different way of doing business. It's about making principles of fairness.  http://www.guardian.co.uk/global- development/audio/2012/feb/27/fair-trade-podcast http://www.guardian.co.uk/global- development/audio/2012/feb/27/fair-trade-podcast  Start at 1:30  And also 3:10

3.  The farmers need to come first!  Farmers around the world who produce these different goods need to be treated fairly.  They have families and lives just like us and they need to be able to sustain themselves and be paid fairly for all there work.  http://fairtradeusa.org/images/mov_feature.s wf http://fairtradeusa.org/images/mov_feature.s wf

4.  This is a news report from August 2010 talking about a local cocoa farmer from Ghana West Africa who enlisted Canadian support for fair trade.  http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVN ews/20100823/CGY_fair_trade_cocoa_100823/ 20100823?hub=CalgaryHome http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVN ews/20100823/CGY_fair_trade_cocoa_100823/ 20100823?hub=CalgaryHome