Question 1

How do cash crops potentially disrupt traditional gender roles in the Global South?

Accepted Answer

A)  Cash crops require significantly more labour, which falls on women and children. 
B)  Cash crops create tension within village power structures. 
C)  While farming is often "women's work," cash crops are often appropriated by men. 
D)  While farming is a familial enterprise, cash crops are dominated by child labour. 
E)  Cash crops reinforce traditional gender roles in the Global South. 
A)  Cash crops require significantly more labour, which falls on women and children. 
B)  Cash crops create tension within village power structures. 
C)  While farming is often "women's work," cash crops are often appropriated by men. 
D)  While farming is a familial enterprise, cash crops are dominated by child labour. 
E)  Cash crops reinforce traditional gender roles in the Global South.

Question 2

What does a livelihood analysis consider?

Accepted Answer

Livelihood analysis considers how differ

Question 3

It appears that the 2008 food crisis was a fluke and it is not likely to recur.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Implementation of the "community development" approach tends to _________________.

Accepted Answer

A)  polarize the social classes 
B)  accelerate agricultural development 
C)  create a new and large bureaucracy 
D)  streamline agricultural development 
E)  underestimate the importance of national governments 
A)  polarize the social classes 
B)  accelerate agricultural development 
C)  create a new and large bureaucracy 
D)  streamline agricultural development 
E)  underestimate the importance of national governments

Question 5

Why has the political order struggled to reconcile rural and urban priorities?

Accepted Answer

A)  Globalization 
B)  Climate change 
C)  Corruption 
D)  The very different rural encounter with global challenges 
E)  Rural areas are less developed 
A)  Globalization 
B)  Climate change 
C)  Corruption 
D)  The very different rural encounter with global challenges 
E)  Rural areas are less developed

Question 6

Where does the large majority of extremely poor people live?

Accepted Answer

A)  In cities 
B)  In rural areas 
C)  In rural areas as well as in cities 
D)  Coastal cities 
E)  Asia 
A)  In cities 
B)  In rural areas 
C)  In rural areas as well as in cities 
D)  Coastal cities 
E)  Asia

Question 7

Which of the following is true about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?

Accepted Answer

A)  They have failed to explicitly acknowledge rural poverty. 
B)  They deal with the complexity of rural poverty through overlapping goals. 
C)  They are the most successful attempts to deal with food scarcity. 
D)  They root their development programs in a basic understanding of the urban/rural divide. 
E)  They took great effort to bring small farmers in as stakeholders. 
A)  They have failed to explicitly acknowledge rural poverty. 
B)  They deal with the complexity of rural poverty through overlapping goals. 
C)  They are the most successful attempts to deal with food scarcity. 
D)  They root their development programs in a basic understanding of the urban/rural divide. 
E)  They took great effort to bring small farmers in as stakeholders.

Question 8

Participatory rural appraisal is thought to establish strong ties with macro policy-making environments.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Chambers's work on the multiple realities of rural poverty shows rural poverty is an outcome of not only financial and nutritional poverty but also ______________.

Accepted Answer

A)  one's exclusion from political and institutional processes 
B)  one's exclusion from global markets 
C)  one's relationship to corporate power 
D)  one's exclusion in accessing people's rights 
E)  one's exclusion from agricultural technology 
A)  one's exclusion from political and institutional processes 
B)  one's exclusion from global markets 
C)  one's relationship to corporate power 
D)  one's exclusion in accessing people's rights 
E)  one's exclusion from agricultural technology

Question 10

For national statistics services, urban populations are distinguished from rural ones based on which threshold levels?

Accepted Answer

A)  Non-agricultural production 
B)  Population 
C)  Number of children per household 
D)  Both A and B 
E)  All of the above 
A)  Non-agricultural production 
B)  Population 
C)  Number of children per household 
D)  Both A and B 
E)  All of the above

Question 11

National statistical services distinguish an urban area as typically containing a certain non-agricultural production base.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

In the wake of the 2008-12 crisis, how does donor policy incoherence affect agricultural trade policy?

Accepted Answer

A)  They have been used only for building infrastructure 
B)  They have become corrupted 
C)  It undermines the MNOs efforts to improve smallholder productivity, rural livelihoods, or gender equity 
D)  It improves smallholder productivity, rural livelihoods, or gender equity but not enough 
E)  It undermines broader-based efforts to improve smallholder productivity, rural livelihoods, or gender equity 
A)  They have been used only for building infrastructure 
B)  They have become corrupted 
C)  It undermines the MNOs efforts to improve smallholder productivity, rural livelihoods, or gender equity 
D)  It improves smallholder productivity, rural livelihoods, or gender equity but not enough 
E)  It undermines broader-based efforts to improve smallholder productivity, rural livelihoods, or gender equity

Question 13

The concept of sustainable livelihoods is particularly relevant to the rural context, where, for example, the seasonal fluctuations of climate drive the viability of different activities.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

The apparently ambiguous categorical divisions between "rural" and "urban" (or "local" and "global") may actually be quite obvious.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Rural reconstruction in pre-independence India demonstrated the possibility of local initiative.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Why have rural communities not benefitted from rising commodity prices?

Accepted Answer

Rural communities and farmers did not be

Question 17

Which of the following is on outcome of multi-locationality?

Accepted Answer

A)  Blurring the boundaries between rural and urban identities 
B)  Boosting the importance of remittance income from migrants as a force in rural development 
C)  Increasing national investment and international development assistance for rural development 
D)  Both A and B 
E)  All of the above 
A)  Blurring the boundaries between rural and urban identities 
B)  Boosting the importance of remittance income from migrants as a force in rural development 
C)  Increasing national investment and international development assistance for rural development 
D)  Both A and B 
E)  All of the above

Question 18

Discuss the "integrated rural development" approach to change.

Accepted Answer

The integrated rural development (IRD) a

Question 19

Examine the intersection between rural development and gender.

Accepted Answer

While it is convenient to describe "hous

Question 20

Why is it dangerous to equate agricultural development with rural development?

Accepted Answer

While agricultural growth will certainly

Exam 19: Rural Development

How do cash crops potentially disrupt traditional gender roles in the Global South?

What does a livelihood analysis consider?

It appears that the 2008 food crisis was a fluke and it is not likely to recur.

Implementation of the "community development" approach tends to _________________.

Why has the political order struggled to reconcile rural and urban priorities?

Where does the large majority of extremely poor people live?

Which of the following is true about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?

Participatory rural appraisal is thought to establish strong ties with macro policy-making environments.

Chambers's work on the multiple realities of rural poverty shows rural poverty is an outcome of not only financial and nutritional poverty but also ______________.

For national statistics services, urban populations are distinguished from rural ones based on which threshold levels?

National statistical services distinguish an urban area as typically containing a certain non-agricultural production base.

In the wake of the 2008-12 crisis, how does donor policy incoherence affect agricultural trade policy?

The concept of sustainable livelihoods is particularly relevant to the rural context, where, for example, the seasonal fluctuations of climate drive the viability of different activities.

The apparently ambiguous categorical divisions between "rural" and "urban" (or "local" and "global") may actually be quite obvious.

Rural reconstruction in pre-independence India demonstrated the possibility of local initiative.

Why have rural communities not benefitted from rising commodity prices?

Which of the following is on outcome of multi-locationality?

Discuss the "integrated rural development" approach to change.

Examine the intersection between rural development and gender.

Why is it dangerous to equate agricultural development with rural development?

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