Cotton Fairtrade Quiz

Why do cotton farmers live below the poverty line?

• Because they don't have enough soil to cultivate cotton

• Because they depend on people who buy their cotton below the cost of production

• Because they can't find young workers who want to go to the fields

• Because global warming and droughts made it impossible to grow cotton

Answer explanation

Furthermore, the cotton situation is worse because world cotton trade is heavily distorted by subsidies given to cotton farmers even in rich countries like the US and the EU.

How does Fairtrade make things better? (2 answers)

• through a guaranteed minimum Fairtrade price

• through a guarantee Fairtrade residence where cottonseed farmers live

• through a

  Fairtrade premium for cottonseed farmers.

• through a guarantee Fairtrade system of laws which the organisation enforces

What impact has Fairtrade had on women?

• They stopped working in cotton fields

• They began to be paid directly

• They began working

• They began to leave their kids at Fairtrade kindergarten

What is cotton used for?

• clothes

• paper

• oil, clothes, paper

• clothes, oil

Who is Subindu Garkhel?

• Director of the largest company of cotton in Pakistan

• CEO of Fairtrade Foundation

• Head of cotton at the Fairtrade Foundation

• General secretary at the Fairtrade Foundation

What did Ambatipudi say?

• price of production has slumped

• price of production has increased

• price of production has decreased

• price of production has fluctuated in the last few years

How do companies have a bad influence in fast fashion production?

Answer explanation

Companies want to keep their profits high and costs low so to get work, factories often compete to pay lower prices so they can earn more.

What does Modern Slavery include?

• human trafficking, bonded labor, forced labor, child labour and overtime

• human trafficking, bonded labor, forced labor

• human trafficking, bonded labor

• human trafficking, bonded labor, forced labor, child labour

What are women cotton growers forced to do to keep working?

• forced to work even if injured with back pains or strains

• sexual favors

• unpaid overtime work

• quit their families and kids to work abroad

How did the second industrial Revolution begin?

• Steel boosted the economy

• Cotton boosted the economy

• Steam boosted the economy

• Coal boosted the economy

Answer explanation

Cotton has had a high increase after the discovery of the Americas so much that it will come to be one of the main causes of the first industrial revolution in the eighteenth century. Cotton boosted the economy thanks to its processing, as in the domestic system, which they then began to trade.