Teaching the Global Economy

Fair Trade in Africa: Cocoa http://www.papapaa.org Below is an excerpt from the "For Teachers" section of this fascinating fair trade website: "There are a lot of links in the chain between the cocoa tree and the chocolate bar and cocoa farmers, right at the beginning of the chain, often benefit the least from the global cocoa industry. In Ghana, each farmer sells their cocoa to a private buying company, which then sells it on to Cocobod, the Ghanaian government cocoa marketing board. It is then sold on to international buyers, such as chocolate manufacturers and commodity brokers, at a price set on commodity exchanges, which mediate between buyers and sellers of cocoa worldwide. This site deals mainly with the experiences of the cocoa farmers, the challenges they face, and how Kuapa kokoo and Fairtrade makes a difference."