Climate, Fairtrade and You (Fairtrade Foundation)

• About this resource

  This education pack for primary and secondary schools can provide a segway into conversations about climate justice by  opening up how the climate crisis affects farmers and workers across the world. Through the materials in this pack, young people will have the opportunity to discover how their choices can have an impact on people around the world and on the planet that we live on. These resources support global learning in the context of the national curricula for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, but can be used in other national contexts too. There are a range of classroom and home learning opportunities for students aged 12+. 

  In this pack, you will find:

  • Assembly plans 

  • Lesson plans 

  • Fairtrade and Climate quiz 

  • Home learning grid

  • Meet the farmer

• Testimonies from educators

  “We look at Fair Trade as well. We talk about where we buy chocolate from, or we explain about how you get deforestation from countries that are less developed than us, and they're needing the money, and we're [richer countries] encouraging them to make that money by cutting down trees to make space for growing crops that we want to buy.” Newcastle-based middle school educator

  “It's not just about Fair Trade, but it's about like who is actually in charge of the money, and often it's not the people growing the crops. So we did look at that. I suppose you're looking at global trade structures again, but in a kind of a simplified way that becomes part of the wider curriculum as well, in terms of trying to have that critical lens.” Dublin-based senior primary educator