International Pages - Fair Trade

Fairtrade Bananas

We looked at how bananas were originally from Indonesia, but over a very long time they spread to India, Africa and The Caribbean and South America.

We shared out the photos showing all the stages in getting a banana to the shops. We wrote questions about the pictures and picked out things we could recognise. Then we had to get ourselves into the right order showing the banana travelling from the tree to the shop.

We looked at the 'banana journey' and discussed all the jobs along the way. Then we split into 4 groups.

One group represented the farmers. One group represented the government organisation that helps the farmers with transport and advice. The third group were the people who keep the bananas until they are ripe and then organise transport to get them to the shops. The last group were the shopkeepers.
Each group had to decide how much of the 20p that each banana cost should go to their group.

Each group then fedback about their thoughts and decisions.

Next we found out how much of the 20p really goes to each group for normal bananas and compared the figures with fairtrade bananas. The farmers got more and the retailers got less with Fairtrade.