AGSE 431 / PSAS 531 - International Agricultural Systems Test #1 Review

Chapter 1 Intro to The World Food Economy

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The Green Revolution

Event(s) which contributed to world hunger among the impoverished nations
Causes increases in agricultural production?
What things promote a robust economy?
Percent of the average U.S. households income is spent on food?
Three things make up a prosperous food economy?
Discuss benefits a country is likely to experience with a well developed food economy.
What does our text say is projected in the future
What is the total Conceptual Framework for food security?

Chapter 2 The Demand Side: How Population Growth and Higher Incomes
Affect Food Consumption.

a. How was food demand first predicted?

b. Two indicators now used to predict food demand?
c. Theories of Malthus and the Neo Malthusians .

Chapter 3. The Supply Side: Agricultural Demand and Its Determinates

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Why temperate zones most suitable for agriculture?

Define comparative advantage.
Appropriate roles for government in agricultural production/agribusiness.
Describe the two ways of increasing global agricultural production.

Chapter 5 Agriculture and the Environment

a. What guides the development of privately owned resources?
b. What guides the development of resources where no property rights exist?
c. Three examples of unowned resources where Open Access exists.

AGSE 431 / PSAS 531 - International Agricultural Systems Test #1 Review

d. Explain the benefits of property rights as relates to Market Allocation, and how this
may relate to conservation and the environment.
e. The earths atmosphere is an example of an open access resource. Because of this,
environmental problems with the atmosphere can be the result of what?
f. Global warming: possible results
g. What is one proposed solution to correcting global warming?
h. Given disincentives for unilateral cooperation to address global warming, what is
best course of action?
i. What is/are the impediments to this best course of action?
j. Which areas of the world are suffering the greatest soil damage?
k. Major causes of soil degradation?
l. Causes of de-forestation:
m. Regions of the world experiencing the greatest de-forestation?
n. Countries where re-forestation efforts have successfully increased forested land:
o. Cycle of agricultural development that takes place in a country.
p. Three results of Globalization which will help improve food availability and
environmental protection?
Chapter 8 Striving for Food Security
a. The difference between food insecurity and hunger.
b. Nearly 1.2 billion people live in extreme poverty with earnings of less than or equal to what

amount?
c. Three (3) types of food aid programs.
d. List a seven (7) step framework called the food security synthesis.
e. Standard Model or Washington Consensus lists a set of prescriptions for movement toward economic
growth. Which one is being described by the following:
1) Courts must interpret laws and administer justice even handedly.
2) The full benefits of market exchange are realized when there are many buyers and
many sellers. Governments must avoid coddling monopolies, establish
3) Antitrust laws
4) Transparency and accountability in government dealings are required.
5) One of the greatest challenges facing governments in the developing world is the
covering the cost of essential public services.
6) Commercial activity is facilitated by all weather roads, communications networks,
and so forth.

AGSE 431 / PSAS 531 - International Agricultural Systems Test #1 Review

Chapter 9 Interregional Differences

a. Region of the world with largest increase in economic growth.
b. Region of the world with the highest difference in income distribution? This means
they had the greatest difference between poor and rich.
c. Region with the smallest increase in life expectancy?
d. Only region of the world where total fertility rates (TFR) exceeded what is
considered replacement rates?
e. Region of the world which is an anomaly in virtually every category of supply,
demand, growth, etc.
f. High use of machinery and low rural population densities are an indication that a
region has what?
g. High use of fertilizer, irrigation, seed/hybrids are an indication that a region has
what?
h. Continent which has the most acres in no tillage and the largest percentage of
cropland under no-till?

* Also, review chapter 6 from the text and the power point on Globalization &
Agriculture.