From what we have seen and read, the high-yield agriculture model that currently dominates in the U.S. is necessary to provide enough food to lower-income countries that cannot grow enough of their own food.Group of answer choicesTrueFalse

Current high agricultural yields in the United States result in part from heavy reliance on energy-intensive farming techniques.Group of answer choicesTrueFalse

Food production must increase, but so must:

Looking at the Discussion section in Sundstrom et al.: in Northern European countries ('Type C' countries) the impact of threats to agricultural output is assessed to be small, because Group of answer choicesclimate change will improve agricultural output in these countriesthese countries have the resources to mitigate against negative impactsthese countries don't have much agricultural output to begin withthese countries mostly have livestockthese countries can import food if they need to

From what we have seen and read, the long-term, large-scale trend in U.S. agriculture has been toward smaller farms.Group of answer choicesTrueFalse

Government intervention in agriculture usually involvesGroup of answer choicesPrice supports in order to keep farm incomes highPrice supports in order to keep agricultural imports lowPrice ceilings in order to subsidize U.S. exportsPrice ceilings in order to keep food prices