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The Chocolate Trade Game the Chocolate Trade Game more resources available at www.christianaid.org.uk/learn The chocolate © Christian Aid, 2008 trade game Role-play card 4 (one copy needed) Big Chocolate Company You work for a big international company that makes chocolate bars. You buy cocoa beans from any of the farmers in Ghana. Your aim is to make as much chocolate as you can at the cheapest possible price so that you can make lots of profit. Big Choc chocolate Fair-trade chocolate 1. As soon as the farmers 6. The beans you buy must look start making their beans, like the diagram. Do not buy you can start to buy them. any cocoa bean that is not 2. You can buy any type of exactly the right shape and size. cocoa bean, but make sure 7. As soon as you have some Premium quality beans Premium quality beans they are perfect. beans you can make ‘Big (independent) (fair trade) 3. Normally, you pay the farmers Choc’ chocolate bars on 2p for each yellow cocoa bean yellow or brown paper. Each and 3p for each brown cocoa completed chocolate bar must bean. In different seasons, you have a cocoa bean of the may choose to pay a different same colour attached to it with GI FT price to the farmers when you a paper clip. You can only use buy their cocoa beans. Keep a the materials on your table. note of what you agree. 8. As soon as you have enough 4. From the beginning of the game chocolate bars you can sell some of you should talk to them, in batches of five, to the Standard quality beans the supermarkets to persuade supermarkets. them to buy your chocolate. It 9. Your teacher or leader will On your record sheet is important to find out early on warn you when the season is write down: what they are going to pay you. about to change. Watch out • everything you buy 5. Remember that prices may – this will change things. • who you buy it from change each season, so start • how much you have sold. buying your beans and making your chocolate as soon as you can. Role-play templates 3d more resources available at www.christianaid.org.uk/learn The chocolate © Christian Aid, 2008 trade game Role-play card 5 (two copies needed) Supermarket You work for one of two 1. While you wait for the 4. The chocolate bars should 6. After season one, you can 8. You can make any special big supermarket chains. chocolate bars, plan what look like the diagram. Do not make any special price deals price deals you like for your The other supermarket special price deals will bring buy any chocolate bar that is you like with the chocolate shoppers. Remember that chain is your rival. You you extra profit. not exactly the right shape companies when you buy you want to make more buy chocolate bars from 2. As soon as the chocolate and size. their chocolate bars. money than the rival the Fair Trade Chocolate companies start making their 5. For the first season, you pay 7. As soon as you have some supermarket. Company and the Big chocolate bars, you can start the companies: chocolate bars you can 9. Remember, the prices may Chocolate Company. to buy them. You only buy £2.50 for each batch of five sell them to the shoppers change each season, so Your aim is to make as chocolate bars. yellow chocolate bars (consumers). You charge: start buying and selling your 3. You must buy the chocolate in £1 for each yellow chocolate bar chocolate bars as soon as much profit as you can so £3 for each batch of five brown batches of five bars. you can. that you don’t go out of GI (Big Choc) chocolate bars £1.10 for each brown GI Each batch must be either 10. Your teacher or leader will business. You also want (Big Choc) chocolate bar to make more profit than all fair-trade chocolate or all £3.50 for each batch of five warn you when the season the other supermarket. Big Choc chocolate. Each brown (fair-trade) chocolate bars. £1.20 for each brown FT is about to change. Watch completed chocolate bar (fair-trade) chocolate bar. out – this will change things. Agree the amount you are must have a cocoa bean of going to pay to the companies the same colour attached to it and write it down. with a paper clip. On your record sheet write down: • everything you buy Big Choc chocolate Fair-trade chocolate • who you buy it from • how much you have sold. Role-play templates 3e more resources available at www.christianaid.org.uk/learn The chocolate © Christian Aid, 2008 trade game Role-play card 6 (one copy needed) Role-play card 7 (one copy needed) Shoppers (consumers) Journalists You are people who love eating chocolate, and you You are writers, and your task is to write about want to buy lots. You can buy it from either of the two the chocolate business for a newspaper in Ghana. supermarkets. You have to talk to the different groups around you to find out how they feel about their part in 1. While you are waiting for the supermarkets to start selling their the chocolate trading chain. chocolate bars, work with the journalists to help them write a newspaper story about the chocolate business. Work with the shoppers and write a list of questions to 2. You will need to visit the other groups to see what they are doing. ask the different groups. Keep a record of their answers Find out whether the fair-trade farmers get a better deal than the and write a short story to read to the class at the end of independent farmers. Write down what you see. the game. Here are some examples of questions to ask. 3. When the supermarkets are ready to sell their chocolate bars, Cocoa farmers you can start to buy them. What are the main problems in producing your cocoa beans? 4. You have £20 for your group to spend on chocolate every season. How could you get a better deal? On your record sheet, write down how much you spend. Fair Trade Chocolate Company What is your company trying to do? Why? Big Chocolate Company What is your company trying to do? Why? Supermarkets How do you persuade shoppers to spend money in your shop? Why? Shoppers On your record sheet How do you choose which chocolate bars to buy? Why? write down: Journalists Ask yourselves: which group do you think worked the hardest? • everything you buy • who you buy it from Why? • how much you spend. Think of your own questions to ask, too. Do you want to ask any of your own questions because of what you have discovered about the cocoa-trading chain? Add them to your report. Role-play templates 3f more resources available at www.christianaid.org.uk/learn The chocolate © Christian Aid, 2008 trade game Record sheet (ten copies needed) Record sheet of: Sold Bought Number of Types of Price of Sold to Number of Types of Price of Bought by beans/bars beans/bars beans/bars beans/bars beans/bars beans/bars Season one Season two Season three Season four Totals Income: £ Number of beans/bars sold x price for each = income Minus Expenditure: £ Number of beans/bars bought x price for each = expenditure Equals Profit £ Profit = income – expenditure Role-play templates 3g more resources available at www.christianaid.org.uk/learn The chocolate © Christian Aid, 2008 trade game Season cards The chocolate trade game The chocolate trade game Season cards (for teachers or leaders to read out to the group) Season one Season two Follow the instructions on your role-play cards. There has been a drop in the world cocoa price. Countries that produce cocoa have been producing more beans than ever. This means there are too many cocoa beans on the market and buyers can afford to be choosy about where they buy their beans. The Fair Trade Chocolate Company guarantees a price for its farmers. This means the price they pay stays the same. The Big Chocolate Company cuts the price it pays to 1p per yellow cocoa bean and 2p per brown cocoa bean. The chocolate trade game The chocolate trade game Season three Season four Black pod disease causes crop failure. This disease Shoppers realise what a good thing fair trade is for has destroyed over half of this season’s crop. The world everyone. They demand more fair-trade chocolate. price of cocoa goes up because people still want to buy Sales of ordinary chocolate drop. Supermarkets must cocoa but there isn’t so much available. Farmers must listen to their customers or they might lose business. negotiate with the chocolate companies the price for Shoppers must tell the supermarkets what they want. which they will sell their beans. Role-play templates 3h more resources available at www.christianaid.org.uk/learn The chocolate © Christian Aid, 2008 trade game Role-play card 1 (one copy needed) Fair-trade cocoa farmers You are farmers who grow cocoa beans in Ghana. Premium quality beans You sell the beans to an international chocolate company. (fair trade) You are members of a group called a cooperative and you work together to help each other. 1. Use the two templates to make as many beans as you can. Make the Standard (ordinary) quality beans from yellow paper and the FT Premium (best) quality beans from brown paper.
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