Which term describes a cycle of poverty that must be improved through investment of capital to improve seeds, irrigation, and other inputs?

Which term describes a cycle of poverty that must be improved through investment of capital to improve seeds, irrigation, and other inputs?

• A. Improving Subsistance Farming
• B. Soil Exhaustion
• C. Food Shortages
• D. Marasmus

Answer: (A)

The idea being tested is how investing in farming inputs can break a cycle of poverty in rural farming. In subsistence farming, families grow enough food mainly for their own consumption, with little or no surplus to sell. Because there’s limited capital, yields stay low and households have little money to buy better seeds, irrigation, fertilizers, or new tools. This keeps output and income low, so the cycle of poverty continues. Investing capital to improve seeds, irrigation, and other inputs raises crop yields and makes farming more reliable. With higher production, families can generate surplus food or cash, which can be reinvested in further improvements. Over time, this helps lift them out of poverty and gradually shifts the farming system from basic subsistence toward greater productivity. The other terms describe problems or consequences (soil exhaustion, food shortages, severe malnutrition) rather than the process of upgrading the farming system to break the poverty cycle, so the described term fits best.

The idea being tested is how investing in farming inputs can break a cycle of poverty in rural farming. In subsistence farming, families grow enough food mainly for their own consumption, with little or no surplus to sell. Because there’s limited capital, yields stay low and households have little money to buy better seeds, irrigation, fertilizers, or new tools. This keeps output and income low, so the cycle of poverty continues.

Investing capital to improve seeds, irrigation, and other inputs raises crop yields and makes farming more reliable. With higher production, families can generate surplus food or cash, which can be reinvested in further improvements. Over time, this helps lift them out of poverty and gradually shifts the farming system from basic subsistence toward greater productivity. The other terms describe problems or consequences (soil exhaustion, food shortages, severe malnutrition) rather than the process of upgrading the farming system to break the poverty cycle, so the described term fits best.