Fairtrade 101
What's the goal of Fairtrade?
Improve working conditions for farmers and give them livable wages
Which popular drink is one of the most well-known Fairtrade products ?
Coffee
True of False: Fairtrade is only about economic sustainability.
False: it also focuses on environmental and social sustainability!
True or False: McGill is a Fairtrade-certified campus.
True: we have the silver level (first campus to get it in Quebec!)
True or False: Fairtrade only applies to coffee
False: it applies to many more products: cocoa, bananas, tea, sugar...
Name one Fairtrade-certified fruit commonly found in Canadian grocery stores.
Bananas
Why can supporting sustainable farming practices matter for farmers?
It can help protect soil, water, biodiversity, and long-term productivity.
What level of Fairtrade campus do McGill's downtown and mac campuses currently hold ?
Silver
What of these logo is the fairtrade logo ?
Fairtrade logo
What sweet ingredient can be Fairtrade certified?
Sugar
Why can climate change be especially impactful for small-scale farmers?
It can cause unpredictable weather, droughts, floods that affect particularly smaller scale farms.
Name two fairtrade products that you can buy on campus.
Fairtrade works primarily with producers in which part of the world ?
Countries in the Global South only: includes regions of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean
Which ingredient in chocolate is particularly important to Fairtrade because of the farmers who produce it ?
Cocoa
Fairtrade's approach connects environmental sustainability with what two other dimensions?
Social and economic sustainability
In what year did McGill become a silver-certified Fairtrade campus ?
2026!