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Fairtrade and 乐播传媒 Citizenship Education Webinar

January 19th, 2023 (4:30 PM- 6:00 PM)

A helpful brief on Fairtrade and its surrounding themes ahead of Fairtrade fortnight. The webinar provides a Fairtrade Fortnight planning document, with examples on digging deeper into Fairtrade, cross curricular links, raising awareness, and taking action.

Webinar Resources

Video Recording

The recording provides:

• Background information on the reasons why Fairtrade exists and suggestions on how to explore root causes and actions using the 6-steps approach
• Input from PROUDLY MADE IN AFRICA (PMIA) – Reimagining our relationship with Africa
• Input from MOYEE COFFEE – Fairchain: Disrupting the ‘Big Coffee’ industries by maintaining a fair share of profit in the country of origin

Recording is available on Youtube,

Presentations

Please find the presentation in different formats:

• Genially
• (interactive elements from Genially presentation have been turned into slides as well)
• Slides in PDF

Further Learning & Resources Mentioned

1. VISUALISATION OF WEALTH

: This webpage graph helps demonstrate multinational companies that have the ability to maintain their wealth, while also looking after people and planetary wellbeing. They don鈥檛, because they don鈥檛 have to!听

2. TROCAIRE BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS MANUAL

with 21 Action points to help advocate for fair trade practices and a human rights approach to business ad governance

Activities

1. RACE TO THE BOTTOM ACTIVITY

Financial justice Ireland:听 鈥楻ace to the bottom鈥� activity (p.23): Game to highlight the unequal exchange between the 乐播传媒 North and 乐播传媒 South. Human rights, inequality, environmental impact.听

2. SDG ACTIVITY

Look at the SDG始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: Encourages students to critically think about Fair trade, and helps show that it connects to human rights issues in a multi-faceted way.

Podcasts

Example podcasts:

• Under the Skin, with Russell Brand听
• , Citations Needed podcast

Explanations about the systemic issues behind unequal trading practices. Colonialism, decolonization and the 乐播传媒 North鈥檚 鈥榟idden transfer of value鈥� from the 乐播传媒 South. Growth for the sake of growth, without people and planetary wellbeing included.

TED Talk

(Kate Raworth, Economist, Expert in Donut Economics). Talk on the necessity to include people and planetary wellbeing as part of governance.听

YouTube video

(Tony’s Chocolonely): Contrast and compare: learners can investigate a certified Fairtrade brand, V another brand. Also, is all Fairtrade chocolate also slavery free?听

Articles

To be used alongside 乐播传媒 Digging Deeper model, p14 and 15. PDF link here.

Digging deeper into Fairtrade

• Fair World Project Article The Guardian –

Digging Deeper into EU Due Diligence Act

• Business and human rights resource centre:
• European coalition for corporate justice:
• 罢谤贸肠补颈谤别:

School Talks

1. 颁翱惭贬尝脕惭贬: Trade justice group: recent campaigns, why it’s important to act, and root cause of why these campaigns are needed to ensure systemic change, eg. CETA
   Julia@comhlamh.org听
2. ETHICAL ORIGIN: Social Enterprise in Colombia working with cocoa and coffee farmers, as well as projects putting women at forefront of production processes. Helping to relieve farmers from conflicted affected areas and work involving criminal gangs, through assisting with trade supply chains, and advocating for a fairchain approach to coffee and cocoa production and distribution. Marina Murphy and Alejandro Valderrama +353873539856 hello@ethicalorigin.ie听
3. PROUDLY MADE IN AFRICA (PMIA): Reimagining our relationship with Africa: Changing the narrative from aid and charity to responsible trade, innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship. david@proudlymadeinafrica.org
4. MOYEE COFFEE: Fairchain: Disrupting the ‘Big Coffee’ industries by maintaining a fair share of profit in the country of origin; why this is important, its potential to change 鈥榗onventional鈥� trade, and why current unfair trading practices need to be highlighted.听Killian@proudlymadeinafrica.org

Actions- Campaigns you can get involved now

1. EU Due Diligence Act -New rules on corporate accountability: 听
2. CETA (EU-Canada:Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement): , Join C贸mhlamh Trade Justice group (over 18’s) to be kept in the loop on petitions, protests, and rade activism (tha all learners can join in on)听
3. Peoples Vaccine Ireland: Vaccines for all: Call for an agreement on a waiver of intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines, treatments and diagnostics (TRIPS waiver). Petition further information here.

EXTRA RESOURCES LISTS

• Thanks to Ann Marie from Col谩iste Bhr铆de Carnew for putting together some links to subjects for Fairtrade Fortnight here.
• For even more resources check this .