Chapter 10 Development Key Issue #4 Why do farmers face economic

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1. Define:

a. Sustainable agriculture

b. Ridge tillage

c. Desertification

d. Green revolution

2. Why do commercial farmers suffer from low incomes?

3. What is the demand for food supply in MDCs? Name 2 reasons

for this.

4. What are the 3 policies the U.S. government has addressed with

the problem of excess product capacity?

5. What is ironic in worldwide agricultural patterns?

6. What are the 3 principle practices that distinguish sustainable

agriculture from commercial agriculture?

7. Describe each of the 3 practices from question #6.

8. What are the 2 issues that influence the choice of crops planted

in LDCs?

9. What is Boserup’s thesis on how population growth influences

the type of subsistence farming?

10. According to Boserup, what are the 2 ways to increase the

supply of food?

11. What are the 5 basic stages in the intensification of

farmland according to Boserup?

12. What are ways LDCs raise money to buy more modern

agricultural supplies from MDCs?

13. What is the dilemma LDC governments face?

14. What are the 4 strategies to increase the food supply?

15. What is the challenge for each of these?

16. What region can not keep up the food production ahead of

population growth?

17. Describe the problems that the region faces? How have

government policies aggravated the food shortage crisis?