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Initial Publication Date: January 11, 2018

Knowledge Check: Food System Typologies

Knowledge Check

For the following list of terms or concepts, give which of the three types of food systems it pertains to (global corporate, smallholder, local/alternative).

  1. Shareholders invest in food companies. ___________________________________
  2. Fair trade organizations link smallholders in Kenya to consumers in the U.K. ____________________________________
  3. A dairy farmer sell small lots of milk using weekly deliveries to a mid-size city in New Hampshire. ________________________________
  4. Most supermarket items ____________________________________________
  5. Very important in densely populated rural areas of the developing world e.g. Ethiopia, Peru. _________________________________
  6. Buying butternut squash at the local farmers market. _________________________________
  7. Large wheat fields near Ciudad Obregón, Mexico for export to processors in Mexico, United States, and Colombia. _______________________

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These materials are part of a collection of classroom-tested modules and courses developed by InTeGrate. The materials engage students in understanding the earth system as it intertwines with key societal issues. The collection is freely available and ready to be adapted by undergraduate educators across a range of courses including: general education or majors courses in Earth-focused disciplines such as geoscience or environmental science, social science, engineering, and other sciences, as well as courses for interdisciplinary programs.
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