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Midterm AREC 365, Fall 2012 Instructions : You must answer every question to receive full credit. The answers to questions 1 through 23 must be entered into a scantron sheet. The answers for question 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28 must be provided on the last sheet of the exam. Write your name and sign this sheet. 1. (6 points) If we subsidize the price of inferior foods we can insure that (a) Consumption of these foods by the rural population will increase (b) A greater proportion of the benefits of lower food prices goes to those with low incomes (c) Production of these foods with lower calorie values will decline and production of other superior foods will increase (d) Less of these foods will be imported and more will be produced domestically (e) All people will eat more of these foods that they would otherwise have avoided 2. (6 points) AIDS affects agricultural productivity in what way? (a) AIDS tends to kill people at mid-life who have experience with agriculture (b) People with AIDS cannot work as hard as before (c) All of the listed answers (d) Family members use valuable time to care for dying victims (e) The children of people who die of AIDS are less likely to receive an education, and therefore are less productive as farmers 3. (6 points) Concerning the total amount of food produced and the total population of the world (a) Food production is stagnant, but the population of the world is growing (b) Food production is greater than population, but population is growing faster than food production (c) Food production is growing faster than population (d) Food production is growing while population is not growing (e) Food production is growing at the same rate as the world population 4. (6 points) The Reutlinger Triangle shows: (a) the recommended daily intake of different types of foods for any given person (b) the degree of caloric intake imbalance across groups in a country (c) that people reduce their consumption of starchy foods as their income increases and increase their consumption of protein, fat and sugar (d) the links between population size, food availability and health

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