Oxfam – A World in Jeopardy
	Consumption	Bananas	Nutrition+Trade	Statistics	GM	Canada & USA	
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0
0	This type of trade ensures that the producers get enough money for their work.

What is Fair Trade?	These products used by most banana producers, run off into streams and rivers, destroying plant and animal life 

What are pesticides?	This kind of trade allows companies to operate without taxes or tariffs.

What is Free Trade?	In 1995, this type of money owed by third world countries was
$2,000,000,000,
000.

What is third world (or external, or multilateral) debt?	The genetic diversity of the world’s major food crops lie almost entirely in this type of country.

What are the developing/third world/southern nations?	Take-out foods are the biggest source of fat in the American diet.  This is the main take-out food.

What is the hamburger?	
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0
0	The rich north (one quarter of the world population) consume 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 continue to push the production of this type of crop to pay off foreign debts

What are cash crops?	This is the current world population.

What is over 6 billion?	This sparsely populated Canadian province tests 955 genetically engineered crops per year.

What is Saskatchewan?	These kinds of institutions benefit the most from free trade.

What are multinational or transnational corporations ?	
3
0
0	Since 1950, this percentage of the earth’s tropical forests have been cleared

What is 20%?

	These are the three biggest banana companies.

What are Dole, Chiquita, Del Monte>	During a major famine in this country in the 1980s, grains and other crops were being shipped to export.

What is Ethiopia?	This country gives the lowest per capita aid of all developed countries.

What is the USA?	This technology may force farmers in less developed nations to abandon the age-old practice of seed saving.

What is terminator technology?	The percentage of Americans who are clinically obese.

What is more than 33%	
4
0
0	Research has shown that an American fast food hamburger now contains meat from this many different cattle.

What are 20-200?	For every dollar spent
on bananas this much goes to the producer.

What is 5 cents?	In Central, East and and Southern Africa, what percentage of people are undernourished.

What is almost 50% of the population?	Americans spent this much money on fast food in 2000.

What is 110 billion?	These are the top three nations with the greatest area of transgenic crops planted.

What are USA (20.5 million hectares, Argentina (4.3 ha) and Canada (2.8 million ha)	The number of billion dollars spent on 1998 on diet and weight loss cures in the USA.

What is 32 billion?	
5
0
0	A typical steer consumes how many pounds of grain to gain 400 pounds during its stay at a feedlot.

What is 3,000 pounds?	This country exports more bananas than any other.

What is Equador?	This amount of people in the world are malnourished.

What is 800 million?	Although Brazil exported $13 billion of food in 1994, this many Brazilians were estimated to go hungry.

What is 70 million?	These four mass-produced crops are Roundup Ready (pesticide resistant).

What are soybean, corn, canola and cotton?	This many Canadians used food banks in one month of 1999.

What is 800,000?