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Assignments

Listen/read the two pieces on agriculture and be prepared to discuss them in class.

  Podcast: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/09/19/649273647/episode-657-the-tale-of-the-onion-king

   Article: https://apple.news/A-DrmDB-fSnWKIkM3xHcLCA

Presentation:  Choose an agricultural product

  1. where is it produced

  2. cost of production

  3 graph showing profit from 2014-2018

  4. exported to what countri es

  5. any restriction

6. challenges in production

Harkness on article Inequity in International Agriculture:

Define – LDC, FAO, OECD

What are the handicaps for developing countries?

Name three negative patterns for developing countries and explain.

What are subsidies?

What affect can tariffs have on LDCs?

How can production and trade marginalize small producers?

Explain how LDCs are affected by structural adjustment programs.

How can NAFTA hurt small farmers?

According to FAO what is the central factor affecting developing countries?

 

 

 

Readings

Read Chapter 3 in Economics and take notes on the following:

income per capita, scientific socialism, central planning,  free trade, tariffs, FTA, globalization, laissez-faire, liberalism, neo-liberalism, mixed economy, SOE, trickle down theory, privatization, supply-side economics, asset striping, asset bubbles,

Read the following article: Inequity in International Agriculture

 

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