Fair Chocolate 4All: The game
At the Fair Chocolate 4All workshop, Scientifica visitors could play a board game to learn more about how cocoa goes from the farmer’s tree to become a bar of chocolate. An upcoming teacher workshop aims to bring the game into Swiss classrooms.
Have you ever wondered where the cocoa for your favorite chocolate is grown? And at the same time reflect on how does our decision of what chocolate to buy affects the livelihoods of those growing the main ingredient of your sweet treat?
At Scientifica, the World Food System Center presented a workshop to share more about how cocoa goes from the farmer’s tree to become a bar of chocolate. Visitors played a board game that allows each player to take on the role of various players along this journey: the farmer, merchant, processor, and retailer. Decisions each player made had multiple effects on others as well as sustainability. The game ended with a discussion about how we, as consumers, can make a small contribution to sustainable food systems.
Interested in bringing the game into your classroom?
Bittersweet Stories of Chocolate (Schoggi – die schönen und unschönen Geschichten dahinter)
Teacher Workshop
Friday, 29 October 2021
9:30–12:30
University of Zurich Center for Continuing Education
At the upcoming teacher workshop Bittersweet Stories of Chocolate, participants will learn about elements of the world food system and drivers of change as well as about all the differents steps of the cocoa value chain and the stakeholders involved. The board game will then be presented. The workshop was created for teachers interested in bringing the theme of sustainable food systems into the classroom.
Find out more about the workshop and register: external page https://www.weiterbildung.uzh.ch/programme/wbmat_detail2019.php?angebnr=1720
Deadline: 29 September 2021.
