how can international efforts reduce global inequalities
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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.