Monocropping
Monocropping this plant contributes to incredibly low prices on processed foods in the United States.
What is corn?
This country's population has not recovered since the period of famine that struck in the 1840s.
What is Ireland?
This is the current source of profit for a corn farm in the United States.
What is a subsidy?
What is the government?
This term describes a person who lives off of what they themselves produce.
What is a peasant?
This is the term for a tax on imports.
What is a tariff?
This term describes the process of monocropping removing nutrients from soil over time.
What is desertification?
Americans' consumption of this sweetener has increased dramatically since the 1970s.
What is high fructose corn syrup?
This is the term for a farm that monocrops bananas (or any other cash crop).
What is a plantation?
This is the term for a person who survives by taking a surplus directly from a population they rule over as a landlord.
What is a noble?
What is an aristocrat?
The proportion of people employed in manufacturing jobs dropped dramatically in this country after the implementation of NAFTA.
What is the United States?
What are potatoes?
The rates of diabetes went up dramatically in this country after NAFTA took effect.
What is Mexico?
This is the term that describes the increasing use of machines to do work previously done by animals or humans.
What is mechanization?
This term describes an economic relationship in which what is good for one party is bad for the other.
What is a "material antagonism"?
This is the year the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect.
This disease caused the failure of the Gros Michel banana crop, and is currently killing Cavendish banana crops.
What is Panama Disease?
What is TR4?
A lack of this seasonal rain caused crop failures in India in 1877.
What is a monsoon?
This was the primary food crop of India in 1877.
What is wheat?
This is the term for a group of people who survive by selling goods or services.
What is the bourgeoisie?
This is the term for a country whose politics is dominated by American fruit companies.
What is a "banana republic"?
This term describes the opposite of monocropping.
What is polycropping?
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What is intercropping?
This agricultural innovation was called "a temporary solution" to starvation by its chief architect.
What is the Green Revolution?
This is the primary chemical fertilizer applied to the corn fields in King Corn.
What is anhydrous ammonia?
This is the term that describes a process of transforming a population into wage laborers.
What is "proletarianization"?
This was the primary food export of Ireland in the 1840s.
What is beef?