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Most forms of modern agriculture has led to a net increase in soil on farmlands.
False.
Domestication of plants and animals is a defining characteristics of which argiuclutal revolution?
First
Which of these was NOT a major feature of the 3rd agriculutal Revolution?
The movement away from communal production with the enclourse of private fields.
Commodity chain analysis...
Both b and D.
Which of the following statements about shifting cultivation is false?
Shifting culitvation is the same thing as crop rotation.
Companies that practice flexible specialization...
often avoid long-term contracts with workers so it is easy to futuRosre them when a more lucrative production locations arises.
Rostow's model economic development....
Holds all countries can rach high GDP per capita if they follow the right path.
The agrarian culture is one (in) which...
agriculture production is predominant in daily life.
Which of the following is associated with shifting cultivation?
Both C and D
Which of these best descrive some of the main gials of the Fiar trade coffe company Cafe Direct, accordining to the film?
the ensure that primary producers earn a high price for their coffee beans.
For the peripheral countries, "dependency" means that they are dependent upon core countries for all the following except...
labor.
Which of these grains was not a major focus of the the Green Revolution?
Millet
Manufacturing based assemble line techniques and realtively high wages, and reliant upon mass-consumption is know as...
fordism.
The WTO has determined that prohibiting GMO food for entering a country is an illegal barrier to trade.
True
Gathering and analyzing the market data can be categorized in which sector of economic activities.
Quaternary
Plantations-from coffee, cocoa, and tea to rubber, palm oil, and the bananas- typically practice...
monoculture
In the commodity chain of "free trade" coffee, who earns the lowest share of the price of coffee?
primary sector.
As part of both the first agiruclutral revolution and the green revolution, humans modified plants genetics by selecting cultivars for desired traits.
True.
No country that collects data on woemne has a Gender Empowerment Index of 1 or greater. In other words, in no country is women's status equal to or grater than that of mens.
True.
Which of the following was NOt one of the primary or secondary heaths of the First Agircultural Revoltion?
Western Europe.
Global societies are ______.
And these ____________ are __________.
interdependent; interdepences uneven
What does the periphery/semi-periphery depend on the core for?
for investment, technology, imports.
What does the core/semi-perphery depend the periphery for?
inexpensive labor, production conditions (laws/regulations in other areas).
What is an example of the unevenness at different scales?
The Chipapas is a small ton where children are more liekly to die at a young age because of environmental, poor access to clen water issues compared to Mexico City.
What is the primary sector?
direct harvest/extraction of natural resources.
EX:picking the tomatoes
What is the secondary sector?
Transforming the raw materials through manufactoring.
EX: factory of producing the tomatoes
What is the tertiary sector?
sale and exchange of goods.
includes everything from housekeeping to advertising.
What is the quaternary sector?
handling processing the information.
EX: stock exchange and education.
What is economic structure?
the relative share of each kind of activity in a region, measured by percent of the labor force.
What degree does US have the most of? least?
Most: tertiary,
Least: primary
What is the general idea for the breakdown of divisions of labor for the periphery?
considerable amount of 1 degree, some 2 degree.
What is the general idea for the breakdown of divisions of labor for the SP?
1 degree, lots of 2 degree, and growing 3 degree.
What is the general idea for the breakdown of divisions of labor for the core?
significant 2 degree, large 3 degree, and growing 4.
Define Value added
the process of the net output of secondary industries.
What are the 7 biggest manufactoring economies?
China, South Korea, mexico, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Thailand
Degree 2 workers earn less than _____
Core workers.
What does 1degree wage looks like?
a small price of the final good.
and it depends on cost inputs.
Where is majority of the degree 1 work?
africa, latin america, and asia.
Globalization has ________ and ________.
winners and losers.
What is fair trade movement trying to do?
share some if those who usually get the lowest share of teh final products; properly value primary labor.
What does a Gap sweatshirt go through to get value add?
multiple sectors add different value. but lots of value is added in the 3rd and 4th sector.
Why isnt the boom in coffee shop immediately beneficial to primary producers? What are the ironies of the global market?
Major price difference between 1 degrees and the other degrees. Value added for retailors
How do the consumers view the Machu Picchu brand? Why is not charity?
They thought the packaging was expensive. it is not charity because the wage increas ise for primary producers; the others are still making money.