Agribusiness
The Green Revolution
Wild card questions
Food security / Food sovereignty
100

Brazil's largest crop export is?

Soybeans

100

In order to function smoothly, farming machinery relies on it

Oil

100

In the context of food security, this term refers to a condition where individuals, particularly children, have a low height for their age

"Stunted"

100

In what ways does the ongoing impacts of colonisation influence food security?

Intergenerational poverty

200

What did former president Bolsonaro permit the usage of despite it being banned?

Pesticides 

200

What is the Green Revolution

The development and expansion of agricultural productivity (through technology, biochemistry & crop breeding technologies)

200

In the context of food security, this term refers to a condition where individuals, particularly children, have a low weight for height

Wasting

200

What term refers to the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems?

Food Sovereignty

300

Millions of hectares of land were converted into: 

Cattle and soybeans.

300

This is the term for nitrogen mixing with chemicals in soil to create a toxic compound

Acidification 

300

What were the 3 assigned readings for this week


Fuchs, D. et al, ‘Food for Thought: The Politics of Financialization in the Agrifood System’, Competition and Change, 17(3), 2013, pp.219 233.

Ioris, A. A. R., ‘The politico ecological economy of neoliberal agribusiness: displacement, financialisation and mystification’, Area, 48(1), 2016, pp.84 91.

Richard Manning, ‘The Oil We Eat: Following the Food Chain back to Iraq’, Harpers Magazine, February 2004.


300

In remote areas of Australia, what proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people face food insecurity?

1 in 4 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

400

What is one of the issues surrounding the Inclusive Agribusiness model. 

class separation, encourages neoliberal policy and the continuation of capitalist labour models

400

The name of at least one of the institutes responsible for grain research and development in the 1960s

The International Centre for Maize and Wheat Improvement OR the International Rice Research Institute

400

In the Northern Territory, how many people are on the income management card system, which restricts how welfare payments can be spent?

~ 22,000

400

This practice, involving large-scale acquisition of land often without proper compensation or consent, significantly disrupts local food systems and contributes to food insecurity in affected regions. What is it?

Land-Grabbing

500

What are three of the four main priorities of the neoliberalised agribusiness?

maximisation of growth, surplus, globalisation of markets and short-term accumulation of capital

500

The name of the proto-European tribe who had a full set of domesticated animals & plants 6,000 years ago

The Linearbandkeramik, the LBK or the Wheat-Beef people

500

Name the 3 of the worlds biggest trans national corporations as shown in the lecture 

nestle, pepsico, coca cola, unilever, kellogs, mars, Cadbury

500

This term describes the act of states enforcing restrictions on how certain groups can use their money, often with the intention of guiding behavior or promoting certain values

State Paternalism