The average distance food travels from production to consumption.
What is 1,500 miles?
100
This is the production of a single animal / crop.
What is monoculture?
100
Planned international effort to increase agricultural production in developing countries
What is the Green Revolution?
100
The most recent version of this cost a whopping $284 billion dollars.
What is the Farm Bill?
100
American’s spend what percent of their income on food?
What is 10%?
200
Urban agriculture produces this percentage of Havana’s fruit and vegetable needs.
What is 60%?
200
Production of this type of food emits the most emissions.
What is meat and dairy?
200
This agricultural development took off after after WWII, and is developed using the same ‘ingredients’ that were used to make explosives during the war.
What are synthetic fertilizers?
200
The vast majority of emissions come from this stage in the food chain.
What is production?
200
This is Colorado’s primary agricultural product.
What is cattle?
300
This is the term for the impacts local food production/consumption has on the local economy.
What is multiplier effect?
300
The Mardsen Farm Study in Iowa found that conventional farms could increase yields and decrease inputs by doing this relatively simple practice.
What is crop rotation?
300
One result of this was that the Mexican corn market was ‘flooded’ with cheaper US corn, resulting in the displacement of many Mexican farmers.
What is NAFTA?
300
The amount that world food prices increased by during the 2008 food crisis.
What is 50%?
300
This has been one of the leading causes for innovation in [industrial] agriculture.
What is war?
400
A study by Pirog et al. found that this level of food distribution is the most fuel efficient.
What is a regional distribution system?
400
These are three of the primary benefits of planting cover crops.
What are prevention of soil erosion, suppression of weeds, water conservation, decrease in nutrient pollution, increase in soil fertility?
400
These were the three leading causes of the 2008 food crisis.
What are bad harvests (due to drought), increase in biofuel production, and rising cost of oil?
400
The percentage of Americans that are obese.
What is 34%?
400
These are two of the top four reasons consumers report purchasing local food.
What are freshness/healthy food, support local economy, support local farmer, land stewardship, knowing food source, community?
500
All of the food sold at the Boulder County Farmer’s Market for the entire seasons would feed all of Boulder County’s population for this amount of time.
What is a day and a half?
500
These are two of the reasons why sustainable agricultural practices are not more widely adopted.
What are loss of knowledge/skill, corporate interests in conventional ag, externalities of conventional ag not in cost, and most research goes towards conventional ag?
500
Although not quite as bad as the Great Depression, this time was the worst in recent history for farmers; overproduction, leading to depressed agricultural markets, and increased farmer debt resulted in a rash of foreclosures and even suicides throughout the Midwest.
What is the 1980s Rural Crisis?
500
Switching from a red meat to a vegetable-based diet is equivalent to driving this many fewer miles a year.
What is 8,000?
500
These crops receive more than 90% of farm subsidies (4/5 okay).