Chapter 10

Question 1

Agricultural Reserves in Canada

Answer 1

Ontario (Green belt)

Bc (Agricultural Land Reserve)

Question 2

Externalities

Answer 2

The consequences of decisions (public or private) that are not directly taken into account in a decision-making process.

Question 3

Productivist agriculture

Answer 3

• emphasis on intensive farming
• high use of fertilizers, chemical pesticides and machinery to increase productivity
• dominates many developed countries today with its
• perpetuates financial vulnerability (indebtedness it can involve)

Question 4

Productivist agriculture

Answer 4

• emphasis on intensive farming
• high use of fertilizers, chemical pesticides and machinery to increase productivity
• dominates many developed countries today with its
• perpetuates financial vulnerability (indebtedness)

Question 5

Four main categories of collective functions

Answer 5

Place functions
Play functions
Production functions
Protection functions

Question 6

Place Functions

Answer 6

Functions that depend on the location of the farmland resource and activities in relation to their relative location with respect to urban areas
Play functions: Leisure and tourism functions
Production functions: Functions based on the resources present (e.g., farmland resource)
Protection functio

Question 7

Place Functions

Answer 7

Functions that depend on the location of the farmland resource and activities in relation to their relative location with respect to urban areas

Question 8

Production functions

Answer 8

Functions based on the resources present (i.e. farmland resource)

Question 9

Protection function

Answer 9

Functions involving conservation and protection

Question 10

Food sovereignty

Answer 10

Concept of ensuring that Canadians have more control over all aspects of our domestic food supply is known as

Question 11

Progress trap

Answer 11

While agriculture was a foundation for the settlement of human populations, the expansion of these settled areas is rapidly consuming our finite agricultural land base

Question 12

Multiple forces affecting agriculture

Answer 12

Internal forces: e.g., family finances, situation regarding successors, training, adaptive capacity; … External forces: e.g., urbanization, community support and culture, technological change, effectiveness of information diffusion, market accessibility, competition, government programs, local and regional initiatives in counseling farmers, climate change and variability, …

Question 13

Internal forces affecting agriculture

Answer 13

Family finances

Training

Adaptive Capacity

Question 14

External forces affecting agriculture

Answer 14

Urbanization

Community support and culture

Climate change

Question 15

The potential and actual multiple functions of agriculture:

Answer 15

Food production

Horticultural products

Eco-services

Tourism and leisure

Question 16

An unsuccessful example of a Greenbelt, in which the area of actively farmed land has declined, is the _________________ Greenbelt

Answer 16

Ottowa, Ontario

Question 17

Supply management programs

Answer 17

Control of the level of farm production of certain agricultural products, such as the egg, chicken, dairy, and turkey industries operating in Canada.

These programs involve quotas set by government or industry on production of these products, essentially to limit the volume of production and thus maintain higher consumer prices.

To be effective, these programs also require import restrictions that help maintain higher prices for the farm products concerned.