Consumption
Bananas
Nutrition + Trade
Statistics
GM
100
This type of trade makes sure producers get a fair amount of money for their work.
What is Fair Trade?
100
These products spread on most banana plants, run off into rivers and other water ways, causing great harm to plant and animal life.
What is What are pesticides and fungicides?
100
This type of trade reduces import taxes and tariffs for producers.
What is Free Trade?
100
In 1995, this type of money owed by developing countries was $2,000,000,000,000.
What is external debt?
100
The genetic diversity of the world’s major food crops lie almost entirely in this type of country
What the developing nations?
200
The global north (1/4 of the global population) consume this percent of the world’s global resources
What is 80%?
200
consumers from these two continents are the world’s biggest banana eaters.
What are Europe and North America?
200
African governments are encouraged by the World Bank and IMF to push the production of this type of crop to pay off foreign debts.
What are cash crops?
200
This is the current world population.
What is over 7 billion
200
This Canadian province tests almost 1000 genetically modified crops every year.
What is Saskatchewan?
300
Since 1950, this percentage of the globe's tropical forests have been removed.
What is 20%?
300
These are the three larges 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 exported, leaving the its citizens with little to eat.
What is Ethiopia?
300
This country provides the lowest per capita aid of all developed countries.
What is the US
300
This technology prevents farmers in less developed nations to abandon the practice of seed-saving.
What is terminator technology?
400
Research has shown that an American fast-food hamburgers now contains meat from this many different cows.
What are 20-200?
400
For every dollar of the purchase price of bananas in the retail market, the producer earns this much.
What is 5 cents
400
This is percentage of people are undernourished in Central, East and Southern Africa.
What is approximately 50% of the population?
400
People in the US spent this on fast food in 2001.
What is 110 billion dollars?
400
They are the 3 countries with the largest area of genetically modified crops planted.
What are US (20.5 million hectares), Argentina (4.3 million hectares) and Canada (2.8 million hectares)
500
A typical cow eats this many pounds of grain to gain 400 pounds at a feedlot before slaughter.
What is 3,000 pounds?
500
This country is the biggest exporter of bananas.
What is Ecuador?
500
This is the number of malnourished people in the world.
What is 800 million?
500
Even though Brazil exported $13 billion worth of food in 1994, approximately this number of people in Brazil went hungry.
What is 70 million?
500
These 4 crops essential crops are Roundup Ready (pesticide resistant).
What are soybean, corn, canola and cotton?
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