FOCUS ON THE

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FOCUS ON THE HUG POSTER gateway to Fair Trade
and Organic questions.
Your own knowledge (yup revision!)
The resource book poster
Two sources of information

• Avoids fluctuations of world market advantages
  of a known income
• Fair trade guarantees minimum harm to
  environment in terms of emissions, soil
  exhaustion and erosion etc
• Conditions can be compared with those in typical
  LEDC sweat shop environments (non exploitative)
• The concept of the social premium, with
  examples of how this can benefit the local
  community
• Idea of democratic decision- making within Fair
  Trade communities / cooperatives
• Advantages of chemical-free farming to
  water-course pollution
• Advantages of chemical - free farming in
  promoting bio diversity of insects, birds,
  animals, flowers
• Use of low toxic dyes

• Farmers guaranteed a fair price
• Healthcare
• Technical help with farming
• Overtime pay
• Maternity leave
• Kind to planet (whatever that means)
• Kind to us

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What does FUGIS stand for?
Answers F Futures U Uneven development G
Globalisation I Interdependence S
Sustainability
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Considering the issues you have studied in your
place, how might your place be different in
the future?
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Considering the issues you have studied in your
Extreme Environment, how might this environment
be different in the future?
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Why havent all countries involved in the garment
industry benefited equally from the industry?
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U
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Why might areas of Antarctica develop unevenly
(at different rates)?
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How has your place been affected by
globalisation?
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G
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How has Antarctica been affected by
globalisation? (Think media and China!)
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In what ways has Antarctica benefited from
interdependence between different countries?
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In what ways has interdependence between
different countries had a negative effect on my
place?
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S
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What strategies would you suggest to make tourism
in Greenland sustainable into the future?
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How might a future development planned for your
place be made to be sustainable?