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Solutions to poverty: 1. Fair trade Tipping the balance - plantations

Solutions to poverty: 1. Fair trade Tipping the balance - plantations. Fair trade in Colombia. Santiago's story. Every purchase counts Improving lives Protecting the environment Quality products The power of the consumer. Solution 2: Debt relief. Drop the debt song 10 years on

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Solutions to poverty: 1. Fair trade Tipping the balance - plantations

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  1. Solutions to poverty: 1. Fair tradeTipping the balance - plantations Fair trade in Colombia

  2. Santiago's story • Every purchase counts • Improving lives • Protecting the environment • Quality products • The power of the consumer

  3. Solution 2: Debt relief • Drop the debt song • 10 years on • What are the arguments for and against dropping debt? Having watched these three clips – what are the arguments for and against dropping the debt? Use all three sources. One paragraph.

  4. Solution 3: The Robin Hood tax • Bill Nighy Where does the money come from? Which country gets the money? How is it divided up? Who will benefit? Who will lose?

  5. Solution 4: Aid Problem of aid in general: Problem of giving money: Problems of giving food: Possible problem of bilateral aid: Problem of multi-lateral aid: Benefits of NGO aid: s-cool aid

  6. Solution 5: What is sustainable development? • A type of development which safeguards resources for future generations. • Increases people’s standard of living • Doesn’t destroy the environment (reduces waste or increases efficiency and recycling) • Aims to satisfy basic needs rather than large scale developments • It is: Social Economic Environmental

  7. Sustainable development projects Our project. 1. What the project is 2. Where it takes place 3. Who runs it 4. Who it helps 5. What made your project sustainable? Refer to the previous criteria. 6. Top MDG it addresses and how

  8. Bottom up development vs Top down development: put a line through the phrases from each pair that are NOT usually seen as sustainable development Small scale / Large scale Government run / Community led Experts used / Local ideas used More expensive / Cheaper

  9. This is the fridge magnet or card the gift receiver gets.The goat gets given to a family in Africa. Watch this clip: BUY A GOAT

  10. Oxfam unwrapped What is Oxfam? oxfam-unwrapped What is the Oxfam Unwrapped scheme? Why ‘unwrapped’? Look at the ‘Buy a Goat’ project. How much does the gift giver pay for the goat? Who receives the goat?

  11. How does the goat help the family? How does the goat help the environment? Think about fertiliser. How does the goat help health? How does the goat help education? How does the goat help get the family out of poverty? Why might the goats be extra useful if climate change is affecting farmers in the area? How does the project keep on going on to help families EVEN IF shoppers like us stop buying goats? Evaluate the two project s (buy a goat and your chosen project ) in terms of meeting the sustainable development criteria.

  12. Solution 6: The MDGs List the 8 goals. When were they conceived? When is the target date for meeting them? Google earth MDGs

  13. Solution 7: Ecotourism What is ecotourism?

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