Fairtrade and GCE

A helpful brief on Fairtrade and it’s surrounding themes ahead of Fairtrade fortnight.

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What's the plan of action? Planning/meeting dates in the diaryWho do I need to talk to? Grant funding: Are there ways for our school to spend grant funding?

1: Involve students and the whole school community

Fairtrade fortnight in your school Feb 27th - March 12th 2023

Today's session!

This is a very important and integral element to exploring a global justice theme in a quality way. For Fairtrade Fortnight, if the majority of activities are exploring and digging deeper into fair trade, and the systems and structures that contribute to its need in the first place, then you are doing excellent GCE work! ✅

Fairtrade! It can also involve a focus on human rights, environment, trade justice, tax justice, colonisation and decolonisation

3. Critically explore the global justice theme:

2. Choose a global justice theme:

Fairtrade fortnight in your school

Teacher, student, community, and school leadership engagement: Assemblies, inter-com announcements, poster competition, quiz, breaktime event, peer-peer education/presentation, student led event, Principal Engagement, Board of Management Involvement, School policy, community engagement, social media and online platforms

4. raise awarenss

Fairtrade fortnight in your school

Examples provided later in the session

Buying and advocating for Fairtrade products is A SOLUTION, but there are many ways to tackle unfair trading injustices, that we will learn about today

5. Take action

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Opportunity for WWGS Self Assesment Tool What did I learn from this experience? What would I change?Did I overlook any aspects? If I had more time,what would I do differently? What unexpected conclusions did I come to?

6. Reflection

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WHAT IS FAIRTRADE? Fairtrade is an alternative approach to conventional trade and is based on a partnership between some of the most disadvantaged farmers and workers in the developing world and the people who buy their products. When farmers and workers can sell on Fairtrade terms, it provides them with a better deal: an opportunity to improve their lives and plan for their future. Fairtrade offers us a powerful way to reduce poverty through our everyday shopping Fairtrade.ie

fAIRTRADE definition

WHAT IS FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT? During Fairtrade Fortnight, hundreds of individuals, companies and groups across Ireland come together to share the stories of the people who grow our food and drinks, mine our gold and who grow the cotton in our clothes, people who are often exploited and underpaid. Fairtrade.ie

feb 27th - March 12th 2023

fAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT

If we know everything is not 'fair trade', then does that mean everyhing else is 'unfair trade'?

Opportunity to provide further depth and context into the systemic barriers that do not allow fair trade to exist in the first place, as well as what we can try do about it!

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Critically exploring Fair Trade:

Detangling from the logo!!

UNDER THE SURFACE: What systemic barriers are in place that allow unfair trading practices to happen in the first place?

The Denial of entanglement

Post colonial legacies: Extracting resources and raw materials from global south through unfair trading practices 'conventional trade'

UNDER THE SURFACE: What systemic barriers are in place that allow unfair trading practices to happen in the first place?

The Denial of entanglement

Unequal exchange between Global North and Global South

Environmental Impact

Activity: Race to the bottom

David Nyaluke: Head of Education, Proudly Made In Africa: Examining the chocolate value chain, and reimagining our relationship with Africa. School talk: david@proudlymadeinafrica.org

Critical thinking exercise:

“I don’t think that anyone would argue that business now dominates the world’s centre stage. It is faster, more creative, adaptable, efficient and wealthier than many governments … So in terms of power and influence you can forget the Church and forget politics, too. There is no more powerful institution in society than business.” Anita Roddick, founder of the Bodyshop.

ROLE OF BUSINESS, AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Above could be used as part of walking debate, classroom discussion, essay topic. or research+

Companies cannot be solely left to take upon themselves the responsibility to act in a certain manner. Like all bodies, they must be held to account!

Self regulation is not enough

Business of business is business! and nothing else?

It is a concern whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operation and in their interactions with their stakeholders on a voluntary basis. (European Commission)

Critical thinking about business and human Rights :

Critically thinking about how the world works:

Globalisation has massively shifted production, with absense of transparency between Multinational Corporations and developing countries

50 global conflicts linked to resource extraction (mining, oil gas etc)

Globalization Resource

Multinational Corprations

Critically exploring fairtrade:

The sweet spot: is ethical and affordable chocolate possible?

Faulty Fair Trade: The hidden realities of fair trade chocolate

Fair World Project Article The Guardian - Ethical Labels not fit for purpose’ Article

Fairtrade Foundation Flaws in Fairtrade Certification

Six ways Fairtrade strengthens Human Rights

Critically exploring fairtrade:

FairChain is a radical principle that aims to balance the scales. The goal is to create a 50/50 balance between the coffee producers (them)and the coffee drinkers (us

moyeecoffee.ie

Killian Stokes CEO Proudly Made In Africa, Co-Founder Moyee Coffee

Case study: fAIRchain

Moyee Impact Report

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Moyee Impact Report

Moyee Impact Report

Exploring Fairtrade Fortnight:Further possible actions

• Becoming a Fairtrade school
• Research and discussion: Further articles to 'dig deeper' on
• Investigating a Fairtrade brand V another brand
• Critical literacy on sustainability and greenwashing
• Campaigns happening now to get involved in
• Examples of how to advocate for fair trade
• Examples of how to lobby business and government to act
• School talks

• Teachers and learners have also worked with community groups to make their town or village a Fairtrade town
• Fairtrade Ireland is responsible with Members for setting international Fairtrade standards, and the work of the external certification body: FLO CERT
• The Members are the highest decision-making body through Fairtrade's General Assembly and they mandate a Board and other leadership teams to carry out international work.
• The Fairtrade system is co-owned, 50;50% by producer representatives from producing countries alongside the market facing orgs such as ourselves.

Fairtrade.ie

Becoming a Fairtrade school

Contrast and compare: learners can investigate a certified Fairtrade brand, V another brand. Also, is all Fairtrade chocolate also slavery free?

Tony's Chocolonely: Fairtrade and 100% Slavery free

• Contact local businesses directly or by writing letters to them locally.
• Learners could do an audit for the availability of Fair trade or Fairchain products in a number of different retailers, and coffee shops, and share the results with all, as a way of encouraging greater pick up.

aDVOCATE FOR FAIRTRADE and Fairchain LOCALLY

When brands and companies use the word 'sustainable' are the actually being sustainable?!

Cast a critical eye on internal and external certificates and labels

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.(Brundtland, 1987)

21 Action Points

5 key points to ask businesses

Kate Raworth, Economist (Expert in Donut Economics)

Trocaire Business and Human Rights Advocacy Manual

Peoples Vaccine Ireland: Vaccines for all

CETA (EU-Canada:Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement)

EU Due Diligence Act -New rules on corporate accountability

Campaigns you can ge involved with NOW

-Business and human rights resource centre: Articles on Fairtrade, and EU Due Diligence Act -European coalition for corporate justice: How Berlin and Paris sold-out the EU corporate due diligence lawTrócaire: Explained : why do the new EU rules on corporate accountability need to be fixed?-Multinational coffee companies continue buying from suppliers linked to farms with slave labour

digging deeper: ARtICLES on EU Due Diligence act

Trade justice group: recent campaigns, why it's important to act, and root cause of why these campaigns are needed Julia@comhlamh.org

Fairchain: Disrupting the 'Big Coffee' industries by maintaining a fair share of profit in the country of origin; why this is important, and it's potenial to change how we tradeKillian@proudlymadeinafrica.org

Reimagining our relationship with Africa: Changing the narrative from aid and charity to responsible trade, innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship. david@proudlymadeinafrica.org

Social Enterprise in Colombia working with cocoa and coffee farmers, as well as projects putting women at forefront of production process. assisting with trade supply chains, and relieving farmers from conflicted affected areas Marina Murphy and Alejandro Valderrama +353873539856hello@ethicalorigin.ie

School Talks

-Example activity: -Look at the SDG’s, as well as the targets within each Goal. Put learners into working groups or pairs, distribute the 17 goals accordingly, and ask students to determine whether their SDG is connected to Fair trade, and ask to explain why. Teacher reference article: Fairtrade and the SDGsActivity rationale: Encourages students to critically think about Fair trade, and helps show that it connects to human rights issues in a a multi-faceted way.

Thank you :)