Assessment

Multiple choice questions: 1

1.  What is a subsistence farmer?

A.   A small landholder who consumes the majority of their farm produce at home
B.   A small commercial farmer who produces to sell on the market
C.   A small peasant farmer who leaves the land idle
D.   A small landowner who buys food in the market to feed their household

2.   How can you tell whether a farmer is practising sustainable agriculture?

A.   The farmer manages water efficiently
B.   The farmer manages the nutrients in the soil
C.   The farmer avoids soil erosion by planting trees
D.   The farmer plants mixed crops
E.   All of the above

3.  What is food security?

A. Having enough safe and healthy food to eat at all times
B. Being unable to access food for only a few days of the month
C. Having food in the house and still being hungry

4.  What are some probable threats to food security due to climate change?

A.   Low income
B.   Unemployment
C.   Lack of access to healthy food
D.   Natural disasters
E.   All of the above

5.  Which of the following are characteristics of community-supported farming?

A.   A form of agricultural production that brings together landowners, farmers and local buyers to use sustainable practices to produce safe, healthy food
B.   When people from a community who are interested in protecting agricultural land and eating healthy natural food get together to support farms in their neighbourhoods
C.   Some community members offer advice on sustainable farming practices, some provide labour and some pay upfront to ensure regular supplies of fresh and healthy food
D.   All of the above
E.   A. and C. only