AFRE 206 Ann Arbor Economics Essay Assignment

AFRE 206 Ann Arbor Economics Essay Assignment

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AFRE 206 Ann Arbor Economics Essay Assignment

This course explores key concepts and issues related to world food, population, and poverty and their interrelationships. The concepts presented in this course provide students with an analytical framework for critically assessing current trends in development and poverty in light of the rapid changes in the structure of food demand, supply, and distribution. The course explores alternative solutions to food, population, and poverty problems, including the role of new technology, institutional change, government policies and trade.

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AFRE 206 Ann Arbor Economics Essay Assignment

1. What is the structural transformation?
2. What is the agricultural transformation?
3. How are the structural and agricultural transformation related?
4. What are the major characteristics of traditional agricultural farming systems?
5. What are the major characteristics of modern agricultural farming systems?

Each can be contrasted to those of the traditional farming systems.

AFRE 206 Ann Arbor Economics Essay Assignment

6. How does the development of technology typically reflect the relative scarcity of factors of production?
7. What are the strengths and weaknesses associated with different farming systems?
8. What is the Green Revolution? (Particular focus on the Hazel article)

AFRE 206 Ann Arbor Economics Essay Assignment

6. What were the major focus of the first Green Revolution in terms of crops and countries? (Particular focus on the Hazel article)
7. Who benefited in terms of countries, regions, types of farmers? (Particular focus on the Hazel article)
8. What are the major critiques of the Green Revolution? (Particular focus on the Hazel article)
9. What were the complementary factors that made the Green Revolution successful?

AFRE 206 Ann Arbor Economics Essay Assignment

6. Why is agricultural research often funded by the public sector and not the private sector?
7. What are the key factors that limit changes in agricultural production in developing countries, as discussed in class?
8. What is a production function? What is the definition and what does it look like (graph)?
9. How does a technological change (or change in input prices) affect production? How can we see this graphically? You need to know about what a technology change/input price change means in terms of the production function and supply curve.
10. What are producer surplus and consumer surplus? You should be able to identify producer surplus and consumer surplus in a graph and discuss how they relate to changes in prices.
11. What is the difference between uncertainty and risk? What are examples of strategies to reduce each one of them?
12. What impact does agriculture have on the environment?
13. What are the ways in which the environment can affect agricultural value chains?
14. What is climate smart agriculture and how does it relate to sustainability and sustainable intensification?
15. What are the constraints to technology adoption?

AFRE 206 Ann Arbor Economics Essay Assignment

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