Rural Poverty and Agricultural Transformation

A. Poverty rates
B. food security index
C. change in the quantity of food demanded per capita
D. population growth

A. Production possibilities
B. entitlement
C. income distribution
D. egalitarianism

A. War and bad governance
B. Corruption and mismanagement
C. Poor roads
D. Aid from developed nations

A. cargil/Monsanto
B. ConAgra
C. Novartis/ADM
D. Procter & Gamble

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

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

A. multitudinous latitudinous
B. latifundios, minifundios
C. feudum, nocere
D. grameen, repetto

I- Government may set price floors on food and price ceilings for industrial goods
II- Tax incentive and subsidies to infant industry
III- Tariff and quota protection for industry
IV- Spending more for education training housing, health and transport in urban areas than in rural areas.

A. I, II , III only
B. I, II and IV only
C. II, III and IV only
D. I, II, III and IV

A. society’s system of entitlement
B. an egalitarian income distribution
C. low poverty rates
D. society’s high Gini concentration

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