Fair Trade

Although there's been little in the local shops about it, we're in the midst of Fair Trade Fortnight. We've discussed 'fairness' as a general concept with the help of one of the Snail Tales stories and acted out a food supply chain for the banana. We are now collecting examples of Fairtrade products and figuring out where in the world they come from. Why do they come mostly from the southern hemisphere and why is it that it is mostly countries from the northern hemisphere which buy them?