Modules 39-40

Question 1

Hinterland

Answer 1

The area surrounding a city

Question 2

The Global Supply Chain

Answer 2

Agribusiness, organized at the global scale; encompasses all elements of growing, harvesting, processing, transporting, marketing, consuming, and disposing food for people.

Question 3

Contract Farmer

Answer 3

Arrangement between an independent farmer and an agribusiness company to produce a crop; the agribusinesses provide the farmer with all the supplies needed to produce a crop in exchange for a guaranteed price and buyer.

Question 4

Proprietary Seeds

Answer 4

Seeds that are developed and entirely owned by a company.

Question 5

Export Commodities

Answer 5

A cash crop that is produced for export to wealthier countries at the expense of crop production for local consumption.

Question 6

Subsidies

Answer 6

Guaranteed prices for staple food crops.

Question 7

Famine

Answer 7

Extreme scarcity of food.