Terminology
Bananas
Import/Exports
Statistics
Coffee
100
This type of trade ensures that the producers get enough money for their work.
What is Fair Trade?
100
These products used by most banana producers, run off into streams and rivers, destroying plant and animal life.
What are pesticides?
100
This kind of trade aims to eliminate import taxes and tariffs for companies.
What is Free Trade?
100
This country gives the lowest per capita aid of all developed countries
What is the United States of America?
100
These are two of the four largest coffee-selling corporations in the world.
What are Kraft, Nestle, Sara Lee, and Proctor and Gamble?
200
In 1995, this type of money owed by third world countries was $2,000,000,000,000.
What is third world debt.
200
People from these two continents are the world's biggest banana consumers
What are Europe and North America?
200
African governments are pressured to push this form of crop production to pay off foreign debts
What are cash crops? Monoculture?
200
This is the current world population
What is over 7 billion people?
200
This kind of institution benefits the most from free trade of coffee and other agricultural products.
What are multinational or transnational corporations?
300
This term describes the competition between producing countries to offer the lowest prices to the rich countries.
What is the race to the bottom?
300
These are the three biggest banana companies.
What are Dole, Chiquita and Del Monte?
300
During a major famine in this country in the 1980s, grains and other crops were being shipped to export.
What is Ethiopia?
300
Rich countries spend this much on agricultural subsidies every day.
What is one billion dollars?
300
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?
400
This term defines what makes a fair salary for producers of goods.
What is a living wage?
400
for every dollar spent on bananas, this much goes to the producer.
What is 5 cents?
400
Rich countries tax imports from poor countries this many times more than imports from other rich countries.
What is 4 times?
400
Americans spent this much money on fast food in 2000.
What is 110 billion dollars?
400
This country is the world leader in coffee production, yet many of its growers only earn 40% of their growing costs.
What is Vietnam?
500
Europe refuses to import this type of crop for fear of hidden long-term side effects.
What are GMO's?
500
This country exports more bananas than any other
What is Ecuador?
500
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?
500
Although Brazil exported 13 billion dollars worth of food in 1994, this many Brazilians were estimated to go hungry.
What is 70 million people?
500
This many coffee growers in the world are getting paid less than it costs them to grow coffee.
What is 25 million?
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