As much as you might think, New Zealand is not a one-stop-shop for everything under the sun. We are good at milk, sheep, and L&P, but what about everything else? What about the chocolate that we eat, where does that come from? Or our t-shirts, or rather the cotton in our t-shirts, have you ever thought about where that comes from?

A lot of things like chocolate and cotton, as well as things like coffee, sugar, tea, bananas, wine and honey - to name a few – are imported into New Zealand from developing third-world countries, usually the same sort of country that your sponsor kid comes from.

Because of the current international trading system, a lot of these poor countries are getting done over in matters of trade by us rich countries. Some farmers even get paid below the price it costs them to produce! For coffee alone, it is the second highest internationally traded product behind oil, and about 15 million people depend on it to get by. According to Oxfam- ‘for every......

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Title: Fair Trade In New Zealand
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