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| Trade Promotion Authority? Why is it good? |
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| President is able to negotiate trade agreements with other countries and not every president has it |
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| US trade policy regarding the use of food as tool of diplomacy? |
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| Used as a negotiation tool |
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| The only goal of USDA-FAS is marketing US agriculture. |
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| True, the core mission of FAS is to facilitate trade and international cooperation, which are critical to the vitality of the US agricultural sector and the administration’s top economic priority; job creation. FAS also supports US agriculture in its vital role of helping to feed hungry people around the world through USDA food assistance programs and provision of technical expertise to developing countries. |
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| US trade policy always benefits US agriculture. |
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| False, new policies continue to be put in place. Trade agreements are different among countries. |
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| US trade policy is completely oriented toward free trade. |
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| US trade policy and development policy are separate issues. |
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| The US Constitution gives Congress the authority to regulate foreign affairs |
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| Bilateral trade agreements liberalize trade between two countries |
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| Bilateral trade agreements have the potential to undermine the WTO |
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| Trade promotion authority gives the Secretary of Agriculture the authority to negotiate trade agreements with Congress only voting the agreement up or down |
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| Trade promotion authority transfers power from the President to Congress. |
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| In the Doha Round one goal is to enhance the benefits to developing countries from the international trading system. |
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| The major mission of FAS/USDA is to provide development assistance to other countries. |
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| One of the goals of US agricultural trade and development policy is to increase global food security. |
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| The United States accounts for the majority of export subsidies in the world. |
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| Evaluate – The main goal of farm programs is family farm survival. |
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| False, price and income stability are the main goals |
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| Coupled – payment is determined by price and production |
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| Decoupled – payment is determined beforehand and not tied to price and production |
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| A policy or program is multifunctional when it … |
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| Has multiple goals – environmental stewardship, providing open spaces, etc. |
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| The most important long-run goal of US farm policies is the survival of family farms. |
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| The only goal of agricultural policy during the Colonial period was production for export to the British Empire. |
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| The Capper-Volstead Act of 1922 was passed to protect farmer cooperatives. |
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| It is difficult for any country to compete globally if other major competitor countries subsidize their farmers. |
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| The US Department of Agriculture was established in the US Constitution. |
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| “Price parity” refers to setting target prices equivalent to a historical high price. |
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| Acreage allotment and marketing quotas decrease land values. |
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| “Slippage” refers to the difference between the percent of land removed from production and the percent reduction in production. |
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| Farm policy has been a failure because the number of farmers has fallen from roughly 7 million when the programs began to less than 2 million today. |
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| Evaluate – Agriculture is a public good |
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| Yes and no, public vs. private use |
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| What effect does cross compliance programs like sodbuster and swampbuster have on the quantity of farmland? |
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| Increase in farmland, ineligible for other programs |
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| Who or what governs the allocation of water between Florida and Georgia? |
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| Why is the government interested in preserving endangered species? |
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| The public cares about them, maintaining biodiversity etc. |
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| Historically, farmers have treated natural resources as limited. |
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| Agricultural resources are unlimited. |
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| Right to Farm laws protect farms from public-nuisance lawsuits. |
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| State governments are the primary regulators of water allocation policy. |
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| The federal government is the primary regulator concerning endangered species. |
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| Government actions to preserve farmland results exclusively from the concern about the adequacy of the food supply. |
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| If farmers convert fragile land to cropland, cross compliance provisions of the farm bill prohibit them from receiving some farm program benefits. |
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| In Florida, water is allocated by the market. |
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| How does the concept of market failure apply to pollution issues? |
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| Pollution is an externality, externalities cause market failure |
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| Evaluate – pollution control in agriculture is much more difficult than in industry. |
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| Why have farmers and environmentalists tended to be allies on land retirement programs? |
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| Farmers receive payments and can sell leases, environmentalists like it for its benefits to environmental quality and wildlife. |
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| Agriculture is a major source of pollution. |
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| Agriculture has enjoyed relatively lax enforcement of rules controlling pollution. |
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| Farmers are subjected to more environmental regulations than industries. |
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| Agriculture is a major cause of point pollution. |
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| A basic premise of environmental regulation is that markets do not allocate resources in a manner that is best in the long-run interest of society as a whole. |
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| Confined animal feeding operations are considered by the EPA to be point source pollution. |
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| The “first wave” of environmentalism in the United States began with the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. |
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| Farmers and environmentalists have tended to be allies on land retirement programs. |
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| Farmers can be denied farm program benefits if they are not in compliance with specified conservation practices. |
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| EQUIP is the Equal Quality Improvement Program designed to ensure equal treatment of farmers on environmental issues. |
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| BMPs are an attempt to minimize possible adverse impacts on human, animal, and plant health from agriculture. |
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| How did 9/11 change food safety concerns? |
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| Agricultural bioterrorism, the intentional spread of anthrax |
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| What is the effect of increased food safety regulation on the structure of the food industry? |
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| It favors larger enterprises, increases costs; larger companies pass it on to consumers |
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| What is HACCP, and where in the food chain is it applied? |
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| Horizontal Analysis Critical Control Point, designed to minimize and detect pathogens in meat inspection facilities |
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| Policymakers’ major concern in dealing with issues of food safety involves reducing the health risk to as near zero as possible. |
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| The goal of US policy is to make the food supply 100% safe. |
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| One of the costs of a safe food supply is reduced consumer choice. |
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| Microbiological contamination is a relatively new food concern. |
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| The responsibility for dealing with food terrorism rests with a single agency. |
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| Regulation to prevent food-borne illness began with HACCP. |
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| USDA’s APHIS’s top priority is to address advances and risks associated with biotechnology. |
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| The basis of HACCP involves the identification and monitoring of critical points at which contamination could occur. |
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| Irradiation is officially regarded as a harmless way to control microbiological contamination. |
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| The zero tolerance policy regarding cancer-causing substances has been relaxed to a reasonable certainty of no harm standard. |
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| Workers that go back and forth between mexico and US |
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| Workers the follow the crop from place to place in the US |
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