Exam 6: Global Countermovements

According to text, the promises of neoliberalism are not an illusion, but actually real.

Feminists advocate women take control of their fertility and recommend the following approaches to reduce fertility in Third World:

According to the demographic transition theory, birth rates ______ as economic growth ______. This transition occurs as societies shift from ______ to ______, and children are viewed as an ______ rather than a(n) ______. Select the best sequence of words to complete the sentence.

Unlike other countermovements, the feminist paradigm not only advocates for inclusion of women in the development process but also calls attention to ______.

Food sovereignty, as defined by Paul Nicholson, includes all of the following EXCEPT ______.

DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era), WIDE (Women in Development Europe), WEDO (Women's Environment and Development Organization) are all examples of Transnational Feminist Multilateral Organizations (TFMO).

The feminist paradigm stresses that development is a relational, not a universal process, implying the need to take into account ______.

Food sovereignty proponents argue that the global market serves private interests and reduced food to the status of a commodity, skewing its access. This implies that those who ______.

The Brundtland Commission's 1987 call for attention to "Sustainable Development" illustrates the paradox between ______.

A handful of ______ that manage the ______ of world grain trade contribute to the ______ of the global food chain.

All of the following groups engaged in "environmentalism of the poor", EXCEPT the ______.

The feminist paradigm stresses that development is a relational, not a universal process.

The outcome of environmentalism is to explore and generate ways to re-embed economy in ecology.

Transition Town and Commons models of alternative futures demonstrate the role of local communities and groups to chart their own visions of development.

What is food sovereignty and why is it important as a globalization countermovement?

The meaning of food sovereignty is not only applied to small producer coalitions in the countryside, but also to all of the following EXCEPT ______.

The Zapatista movement arose because ______.

Systemic countermovements are different from reforming movements because they ______.

The notion that the market society is a "double movement" is most closely associated with ______.

According to La Vía Campesina, small producers should be the principal agent to feed the world, as they feed up to 70% of the world and have capacity to produce as much if not more food than large monocultures of industrial agriculture.