ACCUMULATIVE

Question 1

ICARDA is located in

Answer 1

Syria

Question 2

a cassava breeder seeking to improve genetics should visit:

Answer 2

latina america

Question 3

____ is a crop that the Yakima culture doesnt consider positive

Answer 3

wheat

Question 4

lecture from Alex, “no barriers to trade” and “prosperity obtained by market forces” are an example of:

Answer 4

free trade

Question 5

lecture from Alex, he is promoting small loans with a re-payment rate of

Answer 5

98%

Question 6

the promotion of microcredit involves primary ____ and includes _____

Answer 6

loans and training, payment and interest

Question 7

center of origin for sweet potato

Answer 7

latina america

Question 8

“helping people put knowledge to work” is a slogan from what act?

Answer 8

smith-lever act of 1914

Question 9

the focus of the green revolution was to have crops that had:

Answer 9

short, thick stems

Question 10

the most important word to a food producer is to have access to:

Answer 10

sustainable market

Question 11

riparian buffer strips include only

Answer 11

native species

Question 12

CIMMYT is located in

Answer 12

mexico

Question 13

CGIAR is located where they are because:

Answer 13

the need for research being done is greatest at these locations

Question 14

legume crops in food crop production systems _______ our dependence on costly and damaging fertilizer nitrogen

Answer 14

decreases

Question 15

what is the Harambee Spirit?

Answer 15

“let us build a bridge together” UBUNTU = i cant be all i can be unless you are all you can be

Question 16

Describe the difference between food availability and food production?

Answer 16

There is already enough food to feed everyone. The ism’s affect who gets food. people are too poor to purchase whats available, no land to do it themselves. food is poorly distributed.

Question 17

2 phrases that are important to farmers?

Answer 17

access to market, access to credit. small holder farmers increase productivity= integrated player in regional/global markets.

Question 18

A cassava breeder seeking to improve genetics would want to visit…

Answer 18

latin america

Question 19

the Ghanat system practiced in ____, relies _____ on the hydrolic cycle

Answer 19

middle east, soley

Question 20

a major food crop that egypt must import in large quantities

Answer 20

wheat

Question 21

the most sig. long term consequence of child labor is

Answer 21

children will be poorly educated

Question 22

schistosomatasis has been more prevalent in ___ moving water

Answer 22

slower

Question 23

Fortunately, the cassava breeders/geneticists at the Democratic Republic of Congo National
Manioc Research Center have made considerable progress in addressing the potentially very
serious problem of cassava leaf blight virus, which formerly had been causing significant yield
reductions throughout the country.

Answer 23

false

Question 24

Fortunately, two-way shipping traffic has now become possible on the Suez Canal, thus
allowing a much more rapid (and efficient) movement of resources such as food and food
production, processing, packaging, and distribution far more efficient and effective, to and from
the coastal areas of Egypt.

Answer 24

false

Question 25

Those low fences at the back of the IITA research facility, which bothered me a lot when I first
saw them, continued to bother me when the director explained to me that the reason they were
sagging was that they did not have the funds to keep them high enough to prevent theft
(because repairing them would have cost so little)

Answer 25

false

Question 26

he essential plant nutrient element most likely to become yield-limiting first in hungry parts
of Africa—even though it is relatively abundant for mining in certain places on the African
continent—because of its sparse abundance in most of the highly weathered soils throughout
continent, is ____.

Answer 26

phosphorus

Question 27

The Technoserve initiative to establish a functional and well-received banking system for loaning
money to dairy farmers in southern Poland became successful because this non-profit
organization was able to identify talented loan officers who turned out to be so proficient in their
decision-making ability that they were kept in their positions as a functioning “loan committee”
for many years, thus allowing the committee’s membership to benefit from that committee’s
collective wisdom acquired throughout a long period of time.

Answer 27

false

Question 28

What is the Difference in aid/relief vs development?

Answer 28

Aid/Relief – response to emergency, should be short-term

Development is a way to bring people out of chronic poverty

Question 29

What are some crops that literally stand between humankind and starvation?

Answer 29

• Cereal grain
• Legume
• Root/tuber
• Sugar
• Pasture/forage
• Tree
• Alternative (as a source of income

Question 30

cereal grains include:

Answer 30

• Rice
• Wheat
• Corn
• Grain sorghum
• Millet

Question 31

center of origin: rice

Answer 31

south east asia

Question 32

CO: wheat

Answer 32

Mesopotamia

Question 33

CO: Corn

Answer 33

Mexico

Question 34

CO: Grain Sorgum

Answer 34

Africa

Question 35

CO: Millet

Answer 35

China

Question 36

Legumes include:

Answer 36

soybeans, beans, peanuts, lentils

Question 37

CO: beans and peanuts

Answer 37

latina america

Question 38

CO: soybean

Answer 38

china

Question 39

Dr. Tharp talked about:

Answer 39

changes in India, working together, education and development