Introduction to International Development, Practice Quiz: Chapter 18

Introduction to International Development, Practice Quiz: Chapter 18

. Agricultural extensification increases overall crop output ________.

. The participatory approach holds that ________.

. For the first time in human history (according to FAO figures in 2014), ________ per cent of us live in towns or cities and not in rural areas.

. The term "livelihood" is defined as ________.

. In terms of rural development, the United States is typically depicted as ________.

. Ester Boserup hypothesized that technology development and agricultural extensification can be triggered by ________.

. In Transforming Traditional Agriculture, T.W. Schultz proposed that ________.

. Participatory approaches to rural development gained broad acceptance since the late ________.

. The following is NOT a category created by the World Bank in 2008 to describe "rural worlds": ________.

. The term "land tenure" refers to ________.

. Different strategies can be pursued for substantial livelihood depending on the mediation of ________.

. The complexity of land tenure regimes often also means that the inequality in landownership and use-rights is ________.

. Wood (2002) argues that an increasingly prosperous Africa could be more like ________ than land-scare regions.

. In the 1950s, the "two-sector" theory of development assumed ________.

. The sustainable livelihoods approach is the latest attempt to confront the issues of rural poverty in as ________ a manner as possible.

. Most of the world's population earning less than $1 per day is still "rural."

. The sustainable livelihoods approach challenges the "farming first" mentality of other strategies.

. Beyond the logic of national statistical services, we can distinguish two enduring, material features of "rurality."

. The 2008 food price crisis was clearly linked to the suddenly rising housing prices.

. Industrial revolutions have been fuelled by agricultural growth.

. Ashley and Maxwell (2001) point out that rural areas, even ones of great poverty and apparent marginalization, often have much greater income diversity than is normally assumed.

. Countries in which agriculture is no longer a major contributor to economic growth but rural poverty remains widespread are known as transforming countries.

. The Green Revolution promoted high-yielding varieties of produce that were not always appropriate for resource-poor farmers.

. The "community development" approach to rural development derived from both British experience in "preparing" India for independence and the domestic policy of the United States.

. The rural-urban divide is increasingly irrelevant in terms of markets, livelihoods, and activities.

. Malthus, Marx, and Boserup understood the systematic interaction of population, environment (land), and technology (agricultural methods) in the same way.

. With strong donor support, IRD in the 1970s and 1980s had promising results.

. Integrated rural development (IRD) ignored how to revive and build on community development while incorporating the new ideas of small-farm efficiency to promote balanced development strategies.

. The sustainable livelihoods approach is the latest attempt to confront the issues of rural poverty.

. Community development was defined as a process, program, and/or movement involving communities in teaching democratic processes and facilitating transfer of technology to a community for more effective solution of its problems.

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