Question 1

__________ 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.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 2

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.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 3

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.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 4

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.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 5

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.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 8

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 _______________.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 9

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.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

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.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

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.

Accepted Answer

A)  Office of Outreach and Advocacy (OO
A)  
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 (FS
E)  at Stanford University 
E)  AGree Initiative

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

__________ 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.