All you need to know
* Whats it all about?
Fair trade is about:
- Better working conditions
- Better prices
- And fairer terms of trade.
Fair trade is about stopping injustice in working.
* Why buy fair trade?
There is currently a massive cheap cotton industry that is putting the poor cotton
farmers ( who live on 1 dollar a day ) out of business. This is very bad news for the
workers who need the money they earn to survive.
If the cheap cotton industry was removed then it has been estimated that west and
central African countries could earn an extra $94m - $360m from cotton production.
So by buying fair trade products you are helping these people.
A cotton plantation
* Where?
Fair trade clothes are produced all over the globe but to name one place - Mali
Highlighted in light blue, Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world.
Cotton is Mali's most important exports with around 200,000 cotton farmers in the
country, but with the worlds cotton prices falling Mali's farmers are struggling to make
enough money.
* I bet you didn't know.....
There are currently more than 1500 cotton products licensed as fair trade.
75% of all fair trade producers are smallholding farms.
68% of the UK's population recongnise the fair trade logo
20 million fair trade cotton garments were sold in 2008
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