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Category: Rural Poverty and Agricultural Transformation
Which of the following is not a consequence of growing agricultural commercialization ?
A. An increase in the number of landless laborers
B. An increase in rural poverty
C. Women gain in decision making power
D. Workers nutrition is reduced
Which of the following colonial policy contribute further to today’s agricultural underdevelopment in Africa ?
I. Colonial governments compelled farmers to grow selected crops
II. Colonialism often changed traditional land tenure systems from individual control to communal
III. Colonialists failed to train African agricultural scientists and managers
IV. Research and development concentrated on food production and small farmers and herders.
A. I and II only
B. I and III only
C. III and IV only
D. II and III only
Which of the following is not a major factor raising LDC agricultural labor productivity ?
A. new biological chemical mechanical inputs in production
B. new technical and organizational knowledge from greater specialization
C. expanded markets for agricultural output
D. massive government intervention
Which of the following is not among the most advanced global food chain cluster with headquarters in the US ?
A. cargil/Monsanto
B. ConAgra
C. Novartis/ADM
D. Procter & Gamble
In food demand growth equation D = Φ + a E, a is the income elasticity of demand for food E is the per capita income growth and Φ is ?
A. Poverty rates
B. food security index
C. change in the quantity of food demanded per capita
D. population growth
A set of alternative commodity bundles that a person can command in a society using the totality of rights and opportunities that he possesses is known as ?
A. Production possibilities
B. entitlement
C. income distribution
D. egalitarianism
Which index combines measures of calorie availability (in relation to requirement) the growth of per capita daily energy supply food production food staples self-sufficiency, and variability of food production and consumption ?
A. food sufficiency index
B. food security index
C. food self-intake index
D. food growth index
Which of the following NOT a cause of food insecurity, according to Nic Maunder, a specialist on Ethiopia ?
A. War and bad governance
B. Corruption and mismanagement
C. Poor roads
D. Aid from developed nations
Which of the following statement about rural and agricultural development is true ?
A. Rural development is the same as agricultural development
B. The agrarian community requires a full range of services such as schools merchants banks and so on
C. Household nonfarm income is uncorrelated to farm productivity and uncorrelated to farm productivity and household incomes in Kenya
D. China’s rural population receives little income from nonfarm income
Amartya K. Sen emphasizes that having enough to eat depends on ?
A. society’s system of entitlement
B. an egalitarian income distribution
C. low poverty rates
D. society’s high Gini concentration
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