11-29

Today in class we started to watch the movie Slum dog millionaire. It is so far a good movie and I think I am going to learn a lot from it.
1. Mumbai:

• -  The population is 18 million, projected to reach 28.5 million by 2020.
  - Marathi, Hindi and English are the main languages.
  - Mumbai is the capital of the state of Maharashtra.
  - Bombay was renamed Mumbai in 1996.
  - Mumbai's literacy rate is 85.6%
  2. Dharavi:
  -is a slum and administrative ward, over parts of Sion, Bandra, Kurla and Kalina suburbs of Mumbai, India.
  3. Shantytown:
   - It is a slum settlement of impoverished people who live in improvised dwellings made from scrap materials: often plywood, corrugated metal, and sheets of plastic.
  4. How many poeple live in shanty twon world wide?
  - One billion people worldwide live in slums and the figure will likely grow to 2 billion by 2030.
  5. How much is a rupee worth in the U.S?
  - In America 1 rupee is worth .02 dollars.
  6. Who is Amitabh Bachchan?
  -   Bachchan was born on October 11, 1942 in Allahabad. He is an Indian film actor and producer.

India Facts

1. What is the current population of India? 1,173, 108, 018
2. What is the total fertility rate in India? 2.68 children born/woman
3. What percentage of the Indian population lives below the poverty line? 37.2% - 77%
4. Briefly describe two terrorist attacks inside India. On Feb. 13, people thought to be Islamic terrorists bombed a restaurant in the northern city of Pune, killing 17 people.  Indian authorities on Saturday issued a national alert after 9 people were killed and at least 57 were wounded when a bomb exploded at a bakery in a neighborhood popular with foreign tourists in the western Indian city of Pune.
5. The Human Development Report of the United Nations ranks the countries of the world by poverty.  Where does India rank on this list?  India ranked 119th of 169 countries.
6. Briefly describe the effects of the monsoons on India. In less than three days, at least 120 people died. More than 4,000 animal carcasses were later hauled out of the mud. Two weeks after the floods, Surat’s diamond-polishing factories were practically empty of workers, who had fled fearing disease. An industry group estimated the losses at $60 million.
7. What are some of the problems India has getting clean water to its people? They have it extremely polluted with methane gas, they dump toxic waste into it, dead babies, and human waste flows into it from the city.
8. What is the literacy rate in India? The literacy rate of India is 76.9% for men and 54.5% for women.
9. What are the major religions in India? The major religions of India are Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1%.
10. When did India achieve independence, and from what country? India achieved independence in 1947 from Great Britain.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/world/asia/19iht-letter.html?ref=india

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/india/terrorism/index.html?offset=25&s=newest

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/world/asia/19iht-letter.html?ref=india

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/world/asia/01india.html

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2006/09/28/world/1194817098866/part-1-water-woes-in-india.html

http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=8719

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html

11/22 China vs. India

China and India are to population giants. They are the only countries in the world that have over a billion people in population. 2 out of e very 5 people in the world are out of these to countries. Which is equal too 40% of the world population. Either one of these countries is bigger than all of Europe. China is further along in it's demographic transition than India. Life expectancy in China is 73 and in India it is 64. The median ages are 34 and 25 respectively. China is going to have more of there people living in cities in 2015. While in India will have most of there people will be a rural country. International migration is not a factor to there population. The consequential demographic trend for the growth of these two billionaire nations concerns fertility. China's fertility rate is dropping and India's is growing. India's rate is growing twice as fast as China's. Males dominate these factors.

11/15

Today we continued to work on our project and i feel as if we are making a lot of progress.

11/10

Today in class we went over our notes. For homework we had to find four websites that could help solve our questions from our last blog.
http://www.sustainableharvest.com/relationship-coffee/
http://www.coffeeresearch.org/politics/organic.htm
http://www.zokacoffee.com/what-is-specialty-coffee.htm
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-coffee-roasters.htm

Coffee Trade

Fair Trade Coffee - is an organized social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in delvoping coffe obtain better trading conditions and promote susbiniality. www.wiki.com 
Ceritifed Organic Coffee - are coffee beans that have been produced without the use of pesticides or herbicides.http://www.coffeeresearch.org/politics/organic.htm
Relationship Coffee - is an alternative to the traditional coffee supply chain. http://www.sustainableharvest.com/relationship-coffee/
Specialty Coffee - The term "specialty coffee" refers to the highest-quality green coffee beans roasted to their greatest flavor potential by true artisan roasters. These beans are then brewed to perfection as defined by industry standards established long ago. (begins with the planting of a particular type of coffee into a certain growing region.)http://www.zokacoffee.com/what-is-specialty-coffee.html
Roasters - the process of taking ripe green coffee beans and turning them into the brown or black coffee beans, which are then ground and used to make coffee. 1.  are professionals who obtain beans in large quantities and devise roast times to achieve certain types of tastes. 2.to a number of different machines, or sometimes the people who use them, that can be employed in the home to create coffee roasts in much smaller batches. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-coffee-roasters.htm



Questions

1. What are the biggest coffee exporting countries?
2. How does coffee get from the field to the breakfast table?
3. Why is there good and bad coffee? Does it depend on how you haresvt or import the coffee beans?
4. How are coffee beans grown and imported?
5. How many companies around the world import coffee? Who is #1 in import and exporting?

notes

• Coffee is the most heavily traded crop in the world, more than wheat or rice
• There are many places where you can buy coffee
• It takes alot of work to make coffee
• Producers of coffe are not recieving enough, because they are

11/4/10

Today in class we continued to work on our project. Me and Clark are almost done.