rural poverty and agricultural transformation Mcqs
1. Which of the following is not among the most advanced global food chain cluster with headquarters in the US ?
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A. cargil/Monsanto

B. ConAgra

C. Procter & Gamble

D. Novartis/ADM

2. Which of the following NOT a cause of food insecurity, according to Nic Maunder, a specialist on Ethiopia ?
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A. Aid from developed nations

B. Corruption and mismanagement

C. Poor roads

D. War and bad governance

3. In food demand growth equation D = ? + a E, a is the income elasticity of demand for food E is the per capita income growth and ? is ?
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A. change in the quantity of food demanded per capita

B. Poverty rates

C. food security index

D. population growth
4. 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 ?
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A. food sufficiency index

B. food security index

C. food growth index

D. food self-intake index

5. Which of the following is not a consequence of growing agricultural commercialization ?
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A. An increase in the number of landless laborers

B. Workers nutrition is reduced

C. Women gain in decision making power

D. An increase in rural poverty

6. Which of the following colonial policy contribute further to todays agricultural underdevelopment in Africa ?
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A. Colonialism often changed traditional land tenure systems from individual control to communal

B. Research and development concentrated on food production and small farmers and herders.

C. Colonial governments compelled farmers to grow selected crops

D. . Colonialists failed to train African agricultural scientists and managers

7. Which of the following is a form of urban bais ?
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A. Government may set price floors on food and price ceilings for industrial goods

B. #NAME?

C. Spending more for education training housing, health and transport in urban areas than in rural areas.

D. Tax incentive and subsidies to infant industry

8. Which of the following is not true about the specialized farm ?
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A. Such a farm is labor intensive

B. Such a farm uses advanced technology and takes advantage of economies of scale.

C. Such a farm is the most advanced

D. Such a farm usually emphasizes

9. 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 ?
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A. income distribution

B. entitlement

C. Production possibilities

D. egalitarianism

10. Most of Latin America has been characterized by ______ large land-grand estates owned by the few and ________ small poor holdings that rarely provide adequate employment for a family ?
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A. feudum, nocere

B. multitudinous latitudinous

C. latifundios, minifundios

D. grameen, repetto

11. Which scholar argues the following Plantations have no significant advantage over peasants [for] crops for which centralized processing and marketing are not necessary Cocoa and coconuts are typical examples of a lack of large scale economies Peasants can grow and process these crops in small lots with no large capital requirement beyond small indigenous tools and facilities ?
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A. Tim Dyson

B. Raanan Weitz

C. Hans Singer

D. Yujiro Hayami
12. Which of the following is not true about most farmers in LDCs ?
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A. cultivators farm only as much land as their

B. On the traditional farm, output is always greater than consumption

C. labor is underutilized except for planting and harvesting seasons

D. The staple crop is the chief sources of food

13. Which of the following statement about rural and agricultural development is true ?
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A. Rural development is the same as agricultural development

B. Household nonfarm income is uncorrelated to farm productivity and uncorrelated to farm productivity and household incomes in Kenya

C. Chinas rural population receives little income from nonfarm income

D. The agrarian community requires a full range of services such as schools merchants banks and so on
14. Which of the following is not a major factor raising LDC agricultural labor productivity ?
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A. massive government intervention

B. new technical and organizational knowledge from greater specialization

C. new biological chemical mechanical inputs in production

D. expanded markets for agricultural output

15. Amartya K. Sen emphasizes that having enough to eat depends on ?
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A. societys high Gini concentration

B. societys system of entitlement

C. low poverty rates

D. an egalitarian income distribution