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Study Resources for Fair Trade and Global Citizenship

Contents of this article:

SCOOL study resources
 Activities
Other study resources on the World Wide Web
Text by Geoff Taylor, St Clare's, Oxford, OnLine (SCOOL) Co-ordinator, 18 March 2004

SCOOL Study Resources

For language exercises related to Fair Trade and Global Citizenship, please go to the SCOOL Study Centre:

International Day 2004: Fairtrade Products: After-talk TastingFair Trade

Check your vocabulary about small farmers and international trade and test your knowledge in a gap-filling exercise based on a text from the Oxfam Cool Planet website.

Small Farmers and International Trade:

  1. Vocabulary preparation (Matching exercise)
  2. The Issues (Gap-filling exercise)

Here's a quiz based on the Hard Facts page in The Issues section of the Make Trade Fair website, also sponsored by Oxfam.

Global Citizenship

Test your knowledge of global citizenship:

Activities

You're The Farmer

  • Play an interactive Flash-based educational game, as a Welsh or Jamaican dairy farmer

Cowsequences

  • Play an interactive Flash-based educational game, as a Welsh or Jamaican dairy farmer

News and Views

  • You are a journalist for the Daily News. You have been sent to cover the World Summit on Trade. Your editor has asked you to write about a meeting arranged to discuss agricultural trade. Each of the delegates invited has been asked to present their opinions on the current trade system.

Other Study Resources

The Fair Trade Foundation

Make Trade Fair

Learn about:

Fair Trade key issues:

  • Did you know that every time you buy something made or grown in a developing country, you take part in a billion pound scam? As it works today, the global trading system rips off people who are already poor.
  • Learn about dumping, market access, commodities, transnationals, and patents.

Oxfam's Fair Trade campaign:

  • Maketradefair.com gives a voice to the farmers, labourers, and factory workers who are being cheated by the blatantly unfair rules of world trade. And it gives a voice to you, the consumer, if you want to join them in the call to end exploitation and make trade fair.
  • Make Trade Fair is sponsored by Oxfam International. Oxfam GB, founded in England in 1942, is a non-political, independent organisation, with no religious affiliations whose mission is to work with others to find lasting solutions to poverty and suffering worldwide.

Oxfam's Cool Planet: Milking It: Small Farmers and International Trade, a global citizenship resource

  • Learn about the key issues for small farmers: the global market and international trade, the problems facing small farmers in poorer countries, and the fair trade campaign.
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