The Great Banana Chain Game
Focus on trade
Enter the Great Banana Chain Game, where participants get to explore the secret life of a banana.
Have you ever gone behind the scenes of an everyday product and realised how complicated it's whole life cycle is? In this workshop participants take on roles in the life cycle of a banana, such as a shopkeeper, a packer, a plantation owner and a pesticide sprayer, and learn about their place in the great banana chain.
This workshop examines systems of production through role-play and explores how the consumption of an everyday product – in this case a single banana – has both positive and negative impacts on other people and resources all over the world. Through an interactive exercise, students will also learn how the price of a banana is divided up amongst the people involved in it’s production. They’ll critically examine the impacts of these systems of production, learn about alternatives that they can act upon and talk about actions they want to take in their own lives to make the world a fairer place.