The demand by “developed” countries for such items as coffee, tea, chocolate, bananas, and beef has led to:
a. pushing subsistence farmers off their land to make way for huge farms and ranches that specialize in cash crops.
b. an increase in food supplies in “underdeveloped” nations.
c. a return of urban workers to the land where work is now available for them.
d. a decrease in the use of pesticides, herbicides, and artificial fertilizers.
e. a narrowing of the economic gap between rich and poor in world society today.
ANSWER: a
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