Percentages
Of all the energy consumed by the food system, only this percent goes towards production.
What is 20%?
The most highly attended type of farmers market.
What is Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation-Sponsored markets?
The people that were brought to Hawaii under the false pretense of high paying agricultural jobs.
What are Thai people?
Most women farmers in the study in Chapter 7 were against this form of genetic engineering.
What are GMOs?
The distance food purchased on the Unites States mainland travels to Hawai'i.
What is 2,500 miles?
Of all the energy in the food system, this percent goes to processing, transport, home refrigeration, and preparation.
What is 80%?
The type of farmer's market that accepts food stamps and uses single-use bags.
What is People's Open Markets?
What WWOOF originally stood for.
What is Working Weekends on Organic farms?
More female farmers have taken an interest in this type of agriculture instead of conventional agriculture.
What is organic agriculture?
The number of organic farms in Hawaii as of 2015.
What is 166 organic farms?
The percent of organic farmers that identify as women in Hawaii.
What is 25%?
The type of farmer's market that sells pre-made food, whole food, non-food items, and is less political than the others.
What is an "Anything Goes" farmer's market?
What WWOOF currently stands for.
What is Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms?
The percent of principal farm operators that are women.
What is 14%?
Three differences between conventional agriculture and organic agriculture.
What is environment, economy, social, etc.
The percent of WWOOF farm hosts in Hawaii that are caucasian.
What is 80%?
The type of farmer's market that advertises zero-waste, is more political, and has space for people to sit down and eat together.
What are Private Farmer's Markets?
One reason that WWOOFing is popular in Hawaii.
What is learning about organic farming, cutting down on labor costs, more access to low-wage labor, etc.
The way that most women begin organic farming.
What is independently/with a partner?
One challenge that organic farms face that conventional farms do not.
What is physically demanding work, pests/diseases, struggling to keep farms financially afloat, etc.
The percent increase of farmer's markets in the United States from 1994 to 2014.
What is 472% increase?
The number of farmers markets in the US in August 2014.
What is 8,284 farmers markets?
The average time WWOOFers spend on host farms.
What is 2 months?
One challenge that female organic farm owners face.
What is sexism, etc.
Benefits of buying from farmers markets/organic farms.
What is increased nutrition/taste, community, positive environmental impact, etc.