How can international efforts reduce global inequalities

How can international efforts REDUCE global inequalities?

What do YOU think?

To work!• 1. SELF HELP – improving their own quality of

life.

• How?

• Moving from rural-urban areas (water, food and jobs easier to get)

• Improving their homes• Communities working together – building

schools, etc.• Example: Kibera projects….

Around 7million

farmers in 58 poorer

countries benefit from

this symbol….

Watch the film about

talking bananas to

help understand

this….

2. Fair Trade

• Fair trade is all about paying producers of good in poorer parts of the world a FAIR PRICE.

• The extra money paid is invested in local schools, water projects, hospitals, etc.

• Producers who provide a good quality of life (safe, no discrimination) are only allowed to participate in this project.

• BUT: lots produced, world prices go down – all can suffer still….

• Example: Kuapa Kokoo – Divine Chocolate / Café Paramo – Heathfield school

Task:

• Look at the table on page 263.• Answer:• Q1. a. Choose 4 crops from the table. Draw

a line graph to show the increase in production from 1999 – 2007. use one line per crop, with each line a different colour. Plot years on x-axis and production on y-axis.

• b. Describe the trend shown in your graph. Is it the same for each crop?

• C. Do you and your family choose to buy Fairtrade products? Name a few. Why?

What’s the problem with TRADE?

3. Trading Groups

• These are groups of countries that make agreements to REDUCE the barriers to trade – this INCREASES trade between member countries = more money if a poorer country joins.

• BUT- not easy for poorer countries to join. Hard to export good to countries that are part of a trading group. Slows down development in some cases.

• E.g. NAFTA – North American Free Trade Agreement between USA, Canada and Mexico.

• FAIR TRADE and TRADING GROUPS=

HELPS TO INCREASE THE MONEY MADE FROM TRADE

4. The DEBT of poorer countries can be reduced.

• “Each year Africa sends more money to Western bankers in interest on its debts than it receives in foreign aid

from these countries”

1. DEBT ABOLITION

• This is when some or all of a countries debt is cancelled. The money can then be used to develop.

• Example: In 2005, Zambia had $4 million of debt cancelled. In 2006, Zambia had enough money to start a free healthcare scheme for millions of people in rural areas = improved quality of life.

• Organisations like “Drop the Debt”

2. Conservation swops

• “Debt for nature swops”• This is when parts of a countries debt

is paid off in exchange for investment in CONSERVATION.

• E.g. In 2008, USA reduced Peru’s debt by $25million in exchange for Peru conserving (looking after / protecting) its rainforests.