finals

Question 1

The Ejido system stablished on Jan. 6, 1915, aim at returning land to the villagers is found in?

Answer 1

Mexico.

Question 2

Which of the following is allowed under the Ejido land tenure system?

Answer 2

Regularly cultivate the land.

Question 3

Which of the following was not the reason for shared cropping among the peasants in Mexico?

Answer 3

Access to fertilizer

Question 4

Which of the following was not the proponent of the ideal “peasants are thought to be poor candidates for adoption of new ideas and techniques that will make them more modern?

Answer 4

Iwanska

Question 4

Peasants in Mexico faced financial problems due to huge area of farm to cultivate that requires good amount of agricultural inputs.

Answer 4

False

Question 5

Chayanov’s theory helps us understand how some families make decision for farming.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Peasants with Ejido plots often prefer share cropping as it provides a more secure agricultural existence and ties them to their community.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

From the land holder’s perspective, seeking out a shared tenant is economically advantageous.

Answer 7

False

Question 8

Loan is not interest bearing and is be paid when the land holder terminates the share cropping agreement.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

All factors of production in Mexico are given equal rate in the traditional share allocation system.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

Economic analysis suggest that different factors of production contribute unequally to income in a single cropping cycle.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

Key inputs in the share cropping arrangements.

Answer 11

a. Land
b. Water
c. Traction
d. Labour
e. Seed

Question 12

What are the 4 theoretical models about the relationship between stratification and innovation adaption.

Answer 12

a. Linear Model
b. Middle-class conservatism
c. Modified middle-class conservatism.
d. Homogeneity Model

Question 13

What are the 3 factors that serve as leveling mechanism of the Ejido

Answer 13

a. Mexican land reform laws require that members of the ejidos should have approximately equal amounts of land.*
b. quality of the land held by each individual should be more or
less equal.
c. periodic flooding, which regularly wiped out major portions of the crops.
d. the region periodically has been subjected to a number of livestock illnesses.

Question 14

The Philippines has distinct agrarian structure due to its colonial experience with?

Answer 14

US & Spain

Question 15

The coexistence of small peasant farms and large plantations resembles a situation in.

Answer 15

Latin America

Question 16

Industrialization is?

Answer 16

Capital intensive

Question 17

Which of the following has the highest contribution to gross domestic product of the Philippines?

Answer 17

Crops

Question 18

Poverty incidence refers to the percentage of families below poverty.

Answer 18

All of the above

Question 19

This writer argues that landlessness is the major factor behind major poverty.

Answer 19

Sinha

Question 20

The average farm size in Bukidnon in the 1980’s was?

Answer 20

9.8 hectares

Question 21

Which of the following is not considered as frontier area?

Answer 21

Luzon

Question 22

The pre-hispanic Philippine society is dependent on?

Answer 22

Rice Farming

Question 23

The percentage of sugar farm area under the corporate management in Negros occidental is?

Answer 23

Low

Question 24

Because the Philippines is located in Asia, its agrarian structure is similar to the agrarian structure of the rest of Asia.

Answer 24

False

Question 25

The mode of plantation management in Mindanao is.

Answer 25

Modern

Question 26

During pre-colonial time, individual families has __rights over the land that they occupy

Answer 26

During pre-colonial time, land was communally owned by the barangay

Question 27

He describes land reform in the non-communist third world in the post-war period as an institutional innovation promoted by the ruling order in an attempt to overcome economic or political contradictions without changing social relations.

Answer 27

Alain de Janvry

Question 28

Past land reform programs failed because they were intended to redistribute land without changing the social system and power structure.

Answer 28

True

Question 29

This writer claims that landed elites are free riders.

Answer 29

Mancur Olson

Question 30

Past land reform programs failed because of?

Answer 30

Soft state, personal connection, and nepotism

Question 31

Comprehensive agrarian reform law was enacted and approved during the administration of Pres. Corazon Aquino, this law is also known as?

Answer 31

RA 6657

Question 32

Agrarian reform and land reform are the same because they are both about redistribution of land property rights?

Answer 32

False

Question 33

The design of Philippine land reform is typical of the communist asian model?

Answer 33

False

Question 34

When most developing countries attain independence after world war II, one of their aims was to reduce ____ and inequality to the dominant sector of the economy.

Answer 34

Poverty

Question 35

Because of white strip poverty, among landless peasants and extreme income disparities between the land and the landless in their economies, ____ land reform.

Answer 35

Redistributive

Question 36

Which countries has successful land reform?

Answer 36

Japan & Taiwan

Question 37

The Philippine land reform is an example of?

Answer 37

Non-communist Asian Model

Question 38

Blank refers to a large farm estate producing a crop or crops for commercial purposes and employing a relatively large number of hired wage laborers organized under a central management?

Answer 38

Plantation

Question 39

Which is not a characteristic of a traditional plantation?

Answer 39

Profit seeking as primary consideration

Question 40

Banana and pineapple plantations are examples of.

Answer 40

modern Plantation