Last Power Points for the course

Foreign Aid

Fair Trade

Exam Review

Exam Format:

PART A:MULTIPLE CHOICE             K/U  45 MARKS                        

PART B: TRUE OR FALSE                  K/U  35 MARKS                         

PART C: MAPPING                               T/I    10 MARKS                          

PART D: SHORT ANSWER                 T/I    10 MARKS

TOTAL MARKS: 100   (20% OF FINAL GRADE)

Questions will be based on material from the beginning of the course to the end.  All topics below are addressed through the various formats of questions.  Have a good understanding of terminology, stages, theories, key concepts, and events. 

The mapping question will require you to know the location of various countries around that world that have been a focus in the course. You will be required to know the location and name of particular countries.

-political perspectives/spectrums  (one of the first activities we did in class)

-worldviews/bias (expansionist/ecological)

-types of globalization

-Copenhagen consensus

-stage of human development (hunter-gatherer-agriculture-industrial revolution)

-Colonialism/neo-colonialism

-Geo-politics

                -borders

                -types of political governments

                -international governing bodies (UN)

-Population/demographics- terminology

                -theorists (Malthus, Cornucopian, Catton, Bogue)

                -carrying capacity

                -population pyramids

                -demographic transition

                -growth rates (underpopulation, overpopulation)

-Country classification (World Bank vs. UN- HDI) Indicators

-Green Revolution (what it is, what failures occured, why)

-Food Regimes (go over test questions)

-Transnational Corporations

-types of farming (subsistence, cash crops, intensive, extensive)

-WTO

-Fair Trade

-Aid/Tied Aid

-Rostow’s stages of economic development

-famine

Good Luck!

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Power Point for Food and Agriculture and Economic Development

Food and Agriculture Power Point

Economic Development (Rostow's)

Lab Grown Meat!

We've talked about GMOs, and the altering of genes in our food, and how this could help the world hunger problem, but what about Lab Grown MEAT!??  Check out this article!

New Year Resolution?

Do you have one? Do they work? Try to make a New Year resolution that could help the world, what would you choose? Why should people make the same resolution? Feel free to post and discuss below as a "blog assignment" entry.

Dooms Day Vault

In fear of our loss of biodiversity, Norway has established a Global Seed Bank, nicknamed "Dooms Day Vault".  National Geographic highlights it here.  What do you think, is this a good idea, do we have reason to fear loss in biodiversity?

Monsanto

Click here to see Monsanto's response to Food Inc. (similar to the allegations posed in "The World According to Monsanto).

Welcome Back!! Important Information!

Hope everyone had a great holiday!  We're down to the last few weeks of classes.  Here's a reminder of due dates and important items.

Essays- Final cut off date has come and gone, and therefore the essay is no longer accepted

Global Me Journals- These were due the last week of class before the break (Dec. 21st), late marks begin Monday January 7th starting with 5%/day, with a FINAL CUT OFF DATE of Friday January 11th.

Blog- 2 blog entries need to be made by January 11th

Final Performance Task- Seminars ("Stage 6") Friday Jan. 11th & Monday Jan. 14th will be preparation days, with presentations beginning 15-18th