Oxfam Canada: A World in Jeopardy (Trade PowerPoint version 1.2)

Consumption / Bananas / Import/Exports / Statistics / Terminology /

Coffee

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00 / This is the immediate result of overproduction of goods on the world market.
What are falling prices? / These products used by most banana producers, run off into streams and rivers, destroying plant and animal life
What are pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, or chemical fertilizers? / This kind of trade aims to eliminate import taxes and tariffs for companies.
What is Free Trade? / This country gives the lowest per capita aid of all developed countries.
What is the USA? / This form of trade gives farmers a fair price, deals with cooperatives, offers affordable loans and establishes long-term relationships between the farmers and their buyers.
What is Fair Trade? / This kind of institution benefits the most from free trade of coffee and other agricultural products.
What are multinational or transnational corporations?
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0 / The rich north (one quarter of the world population) consumes this many percent of the world’s global resources
What is 80%? / People from these two continents are the world’s biggest banana consumers.
What are Europe and North America? / African governments are pressured to push this form of crop production to pay off foreign debts
What are cash crops? Or What is monoculture? / Nomads in Niger have lost this % of their annual income due to the 2005 food crisis.
What is 70%? / This is the cultivation of fish, shellfish, water plants, etc. for sale.
What is aquaculture? / These are two of the four largest coffee-selling corporations in the world.
What are Nestle, Proctor & Gamble, Sara Lee, and Altria (Kraft)?
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0 / Developing countries have less food for themselves, as land and water are diverted to providefour types of products for rich consumers. These are two of the four.
What are flowers, shrimp, fruits or meat? / These are the three biggest banana companies.
What are Dole, Chiquita, Del Monte? / These are two of the fivecorporations that control most aspects of the entire world’s food production, such as fertilizers, seeds and processing.
What are Monsanto, Nestle, Altria, ADM (Archer Daniels Midland) and Cargill? / Rich countries spend this much on agricultural subsidies every day.
What is $1 billion? / This is a term for the wide variety of genes and crops that is essential for ensuring world food security.
What is biodiversity? / This is how much a coffee grower gets paid for a cup of coffee sold in our coffee shops for $1.50.
What is 2 cents?
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0 / Research has shown that an American fast food hamburger now contains meat from up to this many different cattle.
What are 200? / For every dollar spenton bananas, this much goes to the producer.
What is 5 cents? / Rich countries tax imports from poor countries this many times more than they tax imports from other rich countries.
What is four times? / This % of Canadian food aid must be spent on products made or grown in Canada.
What is 50%? / This term defines a type of seed that grows a plant which will not reproduce.
What is terminator technology, or terminator seeds, or suicide seeds? / This country is the world 2nd largest coffee producer, yet many of its growers only earn 40% of their growing costs.
What is Vietnam?
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0 / A typical coweats this many kilograms of grain to gain one kg of meat.
What is 8 kgs? / This country exports more bananas than any other.
What is Equador? / This past U.S. president said "As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow."
Who is Abraham Lincoln? (1864) / This is how much debt developing countries still owe, after paying $550b over 3 decades on $540b of loans.
What is $523b? / Europetried but was unable to ban the import of this type of crop, for fear of hidden long-term side effects.
What are genetically modified organisms (GMOs)? / This many coffee growers in the world are getting paid less than it costs them to grow coffee.
What is 25 million?

Final Jeopardy: (Category = Agricultural Subsidies) This percentage of agricultural subsidies in America go to the richest 10% of farmers: 73%.