Choose a Fairtrade commodity such as coffee, chocolate, bananas or any other product that you are interested in after looking at the websites listed on the syllabus. Drawing on the readings, the videos, and the websites, answer the following questions:

1) discuss the Fair Trade history of your chosen commodity (when and how was the product first brought into Fair Trade networks).

2) discuss one example of a Fair Trade producer cooperative and how it works: how long has it engaged in fair trade? What are the requirements for being part of the cooperative? How has being involved in Fair Trade affected the farmers and their communities?

3) discuss a profile of the activities of the trade partners who buy the products from the cooperatives such as Cafe Direct (the company that bought coffee from the cooperative in Peru in the video), which should include a brief history of the organization and a description of the products it creates and sells.