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  1. Agricultural Fundamentalism:

  2. Buffer Stocks:

  3. Deficiency Payment:

  4. Engels Law:

  5. Ever-Normal Granary:

  6. Farm Parity:

  7. Greenhouse Effect:

  8. Green Revolution:

  9. Market Price:

  10. No-Recourse Loans:

  11. Parity Price:

  12. Populism:

  13. Support Price

  14. Target Price:

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  Agriculture, Food, and Hunger

Agricultural Fundamentalism:

The doctrine that, since food is necessary to life, farmers should be at least as well off as any other group. 

Buffer Stocks:

See ever-normal granary. 

Deficiency Payment:

A payment received by a farmer from the government for each unit of output produced and sold; it is based on the difference between a target price and the support price. 

Engels Law:

The tendency for the percentage of a family's budget spent for food to decline as income rises.

Ever-Normal Granary:

Government holdings of crops as reserves against periods of bad weather or other disasters at home or abroad.

Farm Parity:

The relationship between the income of farmers and the income of others in the society.

Greenhouse Effect:

An acceleration of a longterm heating of the earth's atmosphere caused primarily by the burning of fossil fuels and the wholesale cutting of the world's forests.

Green Revolution:

The development and propagation of high-yielding dwarf and hybrid varieties of wheat and rice.

Market Price:

The price that would prevail in the absence of government programs and that would involve only negligible surpluses resulting from speculation on next year's higher prices.

No-Recourse Loans:

A system whereby farmers borrow from a government agency and, as collateral for the loan, pledge their crop evaluated at the support price. The lending agency has no claim beyond the pledged crop.

Parity Price:

A price that bears the same relation to some index of farm production costs that it did in some past period.

Populism:

A late- nineteenth- century protest movement that became the basis for two political parties that wanted the government to increase the money supply by printing more greenbacks.

Support Price:

The price at which government agencies buy and store crop surpluses.

Target Price:

A price higher than the support price that is the basis for calculating deficiency payments to farmers.