Deck 13: When Policies Work at Cross-Purposes: Addressing Challenges and Pursuing Opportunities

Question 1

Mancur Olson's logic of collective action predicts that groups whose members share common interests almost always act in unison to consistently achieve their collective purposes.

Answer 1

False
Explanation:Mancur Olson's logic of collective action predicts that groups whose members share common interests do not always act in unison to consistently achieve their collective purposes.

Question 2

__________ policy refers to the condition where agricultural producers who qualify for and collect commodity program payments and related benefits are required to comply with certain conservation requirements as an eligibility condition for the receipt of farm-bill benefits.

A) Free-rider
B) Slippage
C) Additionality
D) Cross-compliance
E) Counter-cyclical

Answer 2

D
Explanation:Cross-compliance policy refers to the condition where agricultural producers who qualify for and collect commodity program payments and related benefits are required to comply with certain conservation requirements as an eligibility condition for the receipt of farm-bill benefits.

Question 3

Free trade and coupled farm subsidies are economic policies that work at cross-purposes (are contradictory)

Answer 3

True
Explanation:Free trade and coupled farm subsidies are economic policies that work at cross-purposes (are contradictory)

Question 4

Dr. Will Masters urges reform of US agricultural policy to change or eliminate the farm subsidy system, such that the average consumer household will receive new price signals about what actually constitutes a healthy diet.

Question 5

When conservation subsidies supplement producer incomes, increase farm wealth, they create financial capacity to convert natural habitat to farm enterprises. This unanticipated effect of conservation subsidies of increasing agricultural use at the expense of less natural habitat is called _______________.

A) the additionality concept
B) cross-compliance
C) slippage
D) the tragedy of the commons
E) the fallacy of composition

Question 6

The ___________________ promotes a broad-based and systematic effort that can meet these four challenges: Meeting Future Demand for Food; Conserving and Enhancing Water, Soil, and Habitat; Improving Nutrition and Public Health; and Strengthening Farms, Workers, and Communities.

A) Office of Outreach and Advocacy (OOA)
B) Congressional Research Service
C) Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition ("the Global Panel")
D) Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) at Stanford University
E) AGree Initiative

Question 7

The _________ proposes an organized approach among "four domains" of food systems to achieve desired nutritional outcomes: Agricultural Production, Markets and Trade Systems, Consumer Purchasing Power, and Food Transformation and Consumer Demand.

A) Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) at Stanford University
B) Office of Outreach and Advocacy (OOA)
C) Congressional Research Service
D) Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition ("the Global Panel")
E) AGree Initiative

Question 8

The ____________ is dedicated to generating new knowledge and policy solutions through integrated research on improving agri-food systems, mitigating hunger, enhancing the environment, and encouraging interdisciplinary inquiry.

A) AGree Initiative
B) Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition ("the Global Panel")
C) Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) at Stanford University
D) Congressional Research Service
E) Office of Outreach and Advocacy (OOA)

Question 9

As defined by Mancur Olson, free riders are typically smaller in size and can readily assess that lobbying efforts return handsome rents (above-normal returns) for themselves.

Question 10

As defined by Mancur Olson, latent groups are often comprised of consumers and taxpayers who find it costly and difficult to organize themselves to jointly lobby for their common interests.

Question 11

The 2014 Farm Bill applied cross-compliance conservation requirements to producer participants in the _____________ program.

A) Regional Conservation Partnership
B) Cooperative Research and Development
C) subsidized Federal Crop Insurance
D) Conservation Stewardship
E) Conservation Easement