Which of the following is not among the most advanced global food chain cluster with headquarters in the US ?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. 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

3. If consumers always spend 15 percent of their income on food. then the income elasticity of demand for food is ?

   A. 1.50
   B. 1.15
   C. none of these
   D. 0.15
   E. 1.00

4. The U.S real food aid, as well as food reserves dropped from the 1960s to the 1980s partly because ?

   A. the transportation and storage cost increased tremendously
   B. proponents of basic-needs attainment opposed food-aid
   C. U.S farm interests wanted to reduce surplus grain stocks
   D. agricultural production suffered excessively due to weather changes

5. Tariff levels in advanced countries tend to be __________ tariff levels in developing countries?

   A. higher than
   B. equal to
   C. lower than
   D. there is no general pattern

6. Poor developing countries typically impose __________ tariffs than rich advanced nations on imports?

   A. lower
   B. higher
   C. about the same height
   D. None of the above

7. For advanced countries such as the United States, tariffs on imported raw materials tend to be ?

   A. equals to tariffs on imported manufactured goods
   B. lower than tariffs on imported manufactured goods
   C. higher than tariffs on imported manufactured goods
   D. The highest of all tariffs

8. Simon S.Kuznets argues that the major stock of an economically advanced country is not its physical capital but ?

   A. natural resources
   B. body of knowledge
   C. land
   D. quantity of labor

9. James Pickett D. J. C. Forsyth, and N. S McBain on the basis of field research in Africa, concluded that business people often want to use the most advanced design without knowing that it may not be the most profitable. They attribute this attitude to ?

   A. maximum capital absorption
   B. factor price distortions
   C. engineering mentality
   D. intermediate technology

10. 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