Chapter 12 Online quizzes

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What is the general composition of a food supply chain?

Research - field experiment - farming correct incorrect

Production - processing - distribution correct incorrect

Agricultural policy - nutrition policy - consumer awareness raising correct incorrect

Food policy - agriculture - food consumption correct incorrect

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Which of the following examples is NOT a very short supply chain?

Subsistence farming correct incorrect

Farmers' markets correct incorrect

Buying at a farm correct incorrect

Eating at your local fast food restaurant correct incorrect

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How do food supply chains and food systems differ?

Food supply chains and food systems are the same; they are two different words for the same thing correct incorrect

Food systems are part of food supply systems correct incorrect

Food supply chains are a part of food systems correct incorrect

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Mainstream food systems are based on which of the following?

Artisanal food processing and small-scale retail shops selling sustainable foods in the centre of the city correct incorrect

Intensive, small-scale, local production correct incorrect

Intensive use of technology, producing at a large scale to have the most efficient form of food production correct incorrect

Key staple foods: rice, wheat, maize and cassava correct incorrect

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What is the 'local trap'?

The notion that local food systems are by default more sustainable than non-local food systems. correct incorrect

The fact that products with a 'local' label are more expensive than similar products without the label. correct incorrect

The notion that local foods are unsustainable. correct incorrect

The notion that local food systems cannot produce for large groups of consumers. correct incorrect

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What are sovereign food systems?

Food systems controlled by multinational corporations correct incorrect

Food systems controlled by the people who produce, distribute and consume food correct incorrect

Food systems controlled by national governments correct incorrect

Food systems controlled by retailers correct incorrect

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What is a foodshed approach?

A strategy to promote local food correct incorrect

A strategy to analyse the geographic region that produces the food for a particular population correct incorrect

A strategy of enhancing the food storage capacity of a particular region. correct incorrect

A strategy to create regionally certified food products correct incorrect

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The 2007/2008 global spike in food prices triggered food systems thinking, because of which of the following?

The problem was complex and systemic. correct incorrect

The price shifts were global. correct incorrect

The crisis increased poverty around the world. correct incorrect

The causes were found in the technological basis of the conventional agricultural practices. correct incorrect

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_____________ represents particular food system challenges, including increased meat consumption and higher consumption of processed foods.

The increasing rural population correct incorrect

Urbanisation correct incorrect

The increasing market power of agribusiness correct incorrect

The rise of 'local' food correct incorrect

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Alternative food systems are usually 'alternative' in the sense of paying attention to which of the following?

The efficiency of food production. correct incorrect

Innovation in the food supply chain. correct incorrect

The profitability of food products. correct incorrect

Direct relationships between producers and consumers. correct incorrect