Fair trade is an organisation designed to help farmers get a fair price for their products. Our blog today is about cotton farmers. and how they make their products.

Many cotton farmers are living a life in poverty. The rising cost of production, higher market price and decreasing yields are the challenges faced daily by the farmers. A fall in cotton prices has serious implications for the farmers ability to meet their needs. In India lots of farmers are seriously in debt. This is caused by the high interest loans. Fair Trade help and rebuild small scale farmers industries, finances, and life. In 2012 there were 33 farmer’s organisations in 8 countries. Thanks to Fair Trade thousands of cotton farmers have improved their lives. Fair Trade works with more than 6600 cotton farmers in the poorest parts of the world. Very few people make much profit from it. Fair Trade aim to help millions of farmers worldwide. 6600 isn’t good enough. Buy Fair Trade to help millions and millions of farmers make enough profit to live. You might not think that you will make a difference, but you will. If all of the people who think that they won’t make a difference all bought Fair Trade then it would add up and make a humongous difference.

Thank you for reading our blog!

By Euan Breen and Daniel Kennedy

By Fair Trade and save some ones life    

Today I have decided to write about something that matters to the world. Fair Trade cotton is very important to the world because farmers work very hard and deserve a fair amount of money. Here are some places you can by Fair Trade cotton.

• M & S
• People tree
• Pants to poverty
• Sainsbury’s

Cotton is made from all over the world  but it is better to buy Fair Trade  cotton. There is a man called Massatoma  Mounkoro and he owns his own farm in Mobiom ,Mali. He signed up with Fair Trade to get a Fair amount of money. Some of the places farms work in are.

• Agrocel pure and fair cotton growers association in India
• Chentna  organic agriculture  producer company ltd in India
• Krishan Sianathan  Agrocel in India

BY MORGAN LECKIE

Hello everyone,

This week our class have been focusing on cotton for Fair Trade Fortnight.

Cotton is one of the world’s largest and oldest commercialised crops. Cotton is also one of the most important fibre crops globally. If you buy clothes made with Fair Trade cotton you are helping farmers all around the world, especially in Central and West Asia and Africa. I have researched and found out some shops such as Marks and Spencer’s, Sainsbury’s and People Tree sell Fair Trade clothing items.

Our class also split into groups. One group was to design a poster for Fair Trade. Another one was to create a song and make a product and advertise it. There was a drama group and the last group was to make a rap about Fair Trade. I was in the drama group. We had to create a scene which shows what Fair Trade is.

Please help farmers  by buying Fair Trade. Thank you.

By Chase Reeves