Which of the following provides the best example of quaternary economic activity?
An American-based facility that purchases government-subsidized corn and manufactures food additives and high fructose corn syrup
A date farmer in Jordan that sells his surplus crop to a local sugar refinery
A subsistence farmer in Ecuador that sells some crop surplus to the market, but farms to support a family who lives on less than two dollars a day
An economic consultant who makes suggestions to companies as to which agricultural products to buy (coffee, dates, tobacco, etc.) given current market trends
A public land grant college that develops a variety of rice that does not require flood irrigation and can be grown in semi-arid countries whose farmers are challenged by frequent drought
Which of the following two points were the key driving forces behind the Green Revolution?
An exponential increase in the human population and the growing popularity of organic farming.
An exponential increase in the human population and the advent of industrial fertilizers.
Human demand for cheap fast food like cheeseburgers and the creation of "perfect" crops by horticulturalists in public research colleges.
Agriculture expanding into arid and previously unarable regions and the resulting increase in irrigation systems and dependence on the water table.
A global trend of consuming more plant-based foods and advances in horticultural science from public land grant colleges.