Transcript Le Jeopardy! des droits de la personne de ACDI 2004 CIDA’s

presents
A World in Jeopardy
(Trade version)
With thanks to CIDA’s Human Rights Network
V ersion 1.2
A World in Jeopardy
Consumption
Bananas
Imports &
Exports
Statistics
Terminology
Coffee
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What
areimmediate
falling
This
is the
prices?
result
of
overproduction of
goods on the world
market.
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The rich north (one
quarter of the world
population) consumes
What
is
80%?
this many percent of
the world’s global
resources…
$400
(+/- 5%)
Developing countries have
What
flowers,as
less
food are
for themselves,
land andfruit,
water are
shrimp,
and
diverted
to
provide
four
meat??
types of products for rich
consumers. These are two
of the four…
$600
Research has shown
that an American fast
food
hamburger
now
What
are
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cows?
contains meat from
up to this many
different cattle...
$800
(+/- 20)
A typical steer
consumes this many
kg of grain to gain
is 3,000
oneWhat
kg during
its stay
at pounds?
a feedlot…
$1000
(+/- 2)
These products used by
most
banana
producers,
What are pesticides,
run off into streams
insecticides,
and rivers, destroying
herbicides,
or
plant and animal life…
$200
chemical fertilizers?
People from these two
continents
are the
What are
world’s
biggestand
North
America
banana
consumers...
Europe?
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These are the three
biggest banana
What
are
Dole,
companies in the
Chiquita,
world…and
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Del Monte?
For every dollar spent
on bananas, this
What
is
5
cents?
much goes to the
producer...
$800
(+/- 3¢)
This country exports
more
bananas
than
What is Ecuador?
any other...
$1000
This kind of trade
aims to eliminate
import taxes and
What is
tariffs for
free
trade?
companies...
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African governments are
pressured to push this form
of crop production to pay
What
is
monoculture,
off foreign debts…
$400
or cash crops?
These are two of the five
What
are
Monsanto,
corporations that control
Nestle,
Altria,
ADM
most aspects of the entire
(Archer
Daniels
world’s food production
Midland) and Cargill?
(such as fertilizers, seeds
and processing).
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Rich countries tax
imports from poor
countries
this
many
What is 4 times?
times more than they
tax imports from other
rich countries…
Daily
Double
This past
U.S. is
president
Who
said "As
a
result
of
the
Abraham
war, corporations
have
Lincoln?
been enthroned
and
an
(1864)
era of corruption in
high places will follow."
$1000
This country gives the
lowest
aid
per
capita
What is the USA?
of all developed
countries…
$200
Nomads in Niger have
lost this % of their
Whatincome
is 70%?
annual
due to
the 2005 food crisis.
$400
(+/- 20%)
Rich countries spend this
much on agricultural
What
is
$1
billion?
subsidies every day .
$600
(+/- $100 million)
This % of Canadian food
aid
must
be
spent
on
What is 50%?
products made or
grown in Canada.
$800
(+/- 10%)
This is how much debt
developing countries
What is
still owe, after paying
$523
billion?
$550b over 3 decades
on $540b of loans.
$1000
(+/- $100b)
This type of trade
ensures that the
producers
getisenough
What
money
for
their
fair trade?
work…
$200
This is the cultivation
What is
of fish, shellfish,
aquaculture?
water plants, etc.
for sale.
$400
This is a term for the
What
biodiversity?
wide is
variety
of genes
and crops that is
essential for ensuring
world food security.
Daily
Double
What
is
This term defines a type of
terminator
technology,
seed that grows
a plant
or terminator
seeds, or
which
will not reproduce.
suicide seeds ?
$800
Europe tried but was
What
are
unable to ban this form
genetically
modified
of crop for fear of
organisms
(GMOs)?
hidden long-term side
effects…
$1000
What
are
This kind of institution
multinational
or
benefits
the most
from
free trade of
transnational
coffee
and
other
corporations?
agricultural
products…
$200
What are
These are
two
of
the
Nestle,
four
largest
coffeeProctor & Gamble,
selling
corporations
Sara Lee, and
in the
world…
Altria?
$400
This is how much a
coffee
grower
What
is gets
paid for
a
cup
of
coffee
2 cents?
sold in our coffee
shops for $1.50…
$600
(+/- 2¢)
This country is the
Whatleader
is Vietnam?
world
in coffee
production, yet many
of its growers only
earn 40% of their
growing costs…
$800
This many coffee
What
is
growers in the world
25
million
people?
are getting paid less
than it costs them to
grow coffee...
$1000
(+/- 3 M)
ThisThe
percentage
of
category:
agricultural
subsidies
What
is 73%?
Agricultural
Subsidies in
America
goes
to
the
Final
Jeopardy!
Thank
you,
and
richest 10 percent of
congratulations
to the
farmers…
winning team!
(+/- 10%)