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Causes
Food and Population
Solutions
IPE Perspectives
Malawi and the Food Crisis
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Four main causes of the food crisis.
What are speculation and the commodification of food, structural adjustment policies, an increase in the use of biofuels, and weather events that hindered agriculture?
100
When the birth rate is higher than the death rate, this increases.
What is population?
100
The crop with the highest yield of grain per acre.
What is corn?
100
One structuralist reason for the development of the food crisis.
What are inequality and exploitation, exploitative economic system, maldistribution of resources?
100
Malawi's government decided to highly subsidize these two things in 2005.
What are fertilizer and high-yielding seeds?
200
USDA official Robert Lewis called for a worldwide increase in grain production to this level to combat hunger.
What is the level of US consumption
200
Urbanization, economic diversification, increased access to contraception, and the empowerment of women all lead to a decrease in this population-related statistic
What is the birth rate?
200
Things in which the US and EU should invest to help famers in the Global South.
What are agricultural research, irrigation, and farming innovations?
200
This perspective emphasizes subsidizing of domestic products and tariffs as solutions to the food crisis.
What is Mercantilism?
200
In 1999, this group put an end to Malawi's "Starter Kits" fertilization program.
Who is the IMF?
300
This lead indebted third world countries to import their food products at a cheaper cost and lower nutritional value.
What are structural adjustment policies?
300
A growing population leads to less land available for use by this important industry
What is agriculture?
300
Crops that are not staple grains which many farmers in the Global South produce for export.
What are cash crops?
300
A possible liberalist perspective on the food crisis.
What is it’s a purchasing power problem, caused by corruption and mismanagement of resources, state’s role should be limited in the market, LDCs should seek comparative advantage and specialization
300
This environmental effect has scientists concerned about Malawi's subsidy program.
What is soil degradation?
400
The most common weather occurrence to hinder agriculture.
What is drought or lack of water?
400
This economic theorist of the early nineteenth century predicted that a population will grow until it reaches subsistence levels.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
400
A growing trend of buying food locally.
What is the locavore movement?
400
Economic liberalists think that less developed countries should do this to combat hunger.
What is to seek comparative advantage and specialization, improve income, more economic development with increased exports and trade.
400
Early warning systems are meant to monitor these two things.
What are weather patterns and crop production?
500
Three main agricultural goods that can be made into biofuels.
What are sugar, grain, and corn
500
This disaster, which is named after a famous political economist, occurs when the food supply sharply drops, causing a massive population contraction
What is a Malthusian Catastrophe?
500
Cultivation and processing of food within a town or city.
What is urban agriculture?
500
Mercantilists think this tends to happen when a state practices neoliberal economic policies.
What is that private countries crowd out competition from other companies when the state is withdrawn?
500
This percentage of Malawi's budget was spent on the subsidy program in 2011.
What is 16%?