Rural Poverty & Agricultural Transformation Mcqs

MCQ: 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 ?

1. Poverty rates
2. food security index
3. change in the quantity of food demanded per capita
4. population growth

MCQ: 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 ?

1. Production possibilities
2. entitlement
3. income distribution
4. egalitarianism

MCQ: Which of the following NOT a cause of food insecurity, according to Nic Maunder, a specialist on Ethiopia ?

1. War and bad governance
2. Corruption and mismanagement
3. Poor roads
4. Aid from developed nations

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

1. cargil/Monsanto
2. ConAgra
3. Novartis/ADM
4. Procter & Gamble

MCQ: Which of the following statement about rural and agricultural development is true ?

1. Rural development is the same as agricultural development
2. The agrarian community requires a full range of services such as schools merchants banks and so on
3. Household nonfarm income is uncorrelated to farm productivity and uncorrelated to farm productivity and household incomes in Kenya
4. China’s rural population receives little income from nonfarm income

MCQ: Which of the following is not a consequence of growing agricultural commercialization ?

1. An increase in the number of landless laborers
2. An increase in rural poverty
3. Women gain in decision making power
4. Workers nutrition is reduced

MCQ: 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 ?

1. multitudinous latitudinous
2. latifundios, minifundios
3. feudum, nocere
4. grameen, repetto

MCQ: Which of the following is a form of urban bais ?
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.

1. I, II , III only
2. I, II and IV only
3. II, III and IV only
4. I, II, III and IV

MCQ: Amartya K. Sen emphasizes that having enough to eat depends on ?

1. society’s system of entitlement
2. an egalitarian income distribution
3. low poverty rates
4. society’s high Gini concentration

MCQ: Which of the following colonial policy contribute further to today’s agricultural underdevelopment in Africa ?
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.

1. I and II only
2. I and III only
3. III and IV only
4. II and III only