Discuss the video on farming systems in the US and give support for which system you think is more sustainable in view of world hunger.
Give examples from the video to support your position.

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1. Based on the information provided in the video Farming Systems Compared, I believe that organic is more sustainable as a means of solving world hunger. I think that conventional seems to be very appealing at first glance, and the idea of higher numbers of production sounds like it has to be the answer, but as the video explained, that really isn’t the case. The conventional farms that are housing thousands and thousands of animals are creating disease. These diseases are then needed to be treated by huge doses of antibiotics and hormones and pesticides. This is breeding things like ecoli and mad cow disease. In addition, they are creating a huge sanitation problem and waste and manure that cannot be used back on the land because of all of the hormones and pesticides that it is filled with. The video gave the example of the farmer who was stabbed in the leg by a boar and his leg became infected. The infection was unusually difficult to treat with standard antibiotics. As he explained in the video, the huge amounts of antibiotics that are being given to the animals are creating essentially very resistant antibodies that could not be killed by our antibiotics. There is real danger in this because we really don’t know what we might end up creating this way and what diseases might end up coming about and how they might effect the human body. The video also explains that, in reality, organic farms are more productive than conventional. They are able to create healthy soil and land and because of this they are able to produce much more diversity and they end up being more profitable than the conventional farms that are only farming animals because they are destroying the land. The problem with organic is that it is expensive and not everyone is able to afford it. So, while it has the potential to be more beneficial in the view of world hunger, it really can only do so if changes are made to make it more accessible to people.
2. In the video, there have been many types of farming systems that people do. One farmer that stood out to me the most was the one in Frankenstein, Missouri (23:59), and he is a natural hog farmer. At first, he was just feeding his pigs whatever and doing anything he can to have them grow faster and fatter to sell for more money. Then an incident happened to him where it was affecting his life. After that he then decided to start all over with new 300 pigs and started doing it all naturally without any chemicals or antibiotics. Compared to other farmers, they may have about 20,000 pigs but those pigs are filled with chemicals and antibiotics. For example, Andrew Kimbrell; an executive director of the Center for Food Safety stated that although the farm with 300 pigs maybe healthy, the farm with 20,000 pigs are the ones that are going to be selling out faster and those farmers will be making more money. But realistically, the world should be buying and consuming the pigs from the farms that are not putting chemicals into these pigs. Because industrial agriculture is a huge forefront for our farming systems, we are now losing soil losing at 13 tons (30:50). This is important because in the view of world hunger, that fastest way to cure this issue would be to have a farming system of industrial agriculture. This will be the fastest way to feed the people that are hungry in the world. World hunger can be a solvable issue once they have access to indultrail agriculture of farming systems. Yet, in the long run once world hunger is fixed, the world is going to have a hard time going back to a healthy farming system since it has been used to the system that they have been using for a long time.

In order to determine if you can recommend buying or selling a stock, you first must understand how the company has performed recently. Would you want to invest in a company that has had negative earnings for the past 3 years? What about a company that has increased the amount of debt on its balance sheet? Or, would you prefer to invest in a company that has had consistent increases in revenues or net earnings over the past 3 years? As the equity analyst, your first task would be to determine the evidence of patterns in the recent financial performance. The financial analysis provides significant insight into the company’s strengths and weaknesses.To fully understand a company’s financial performance, you cannot “evaluate performance using numbers alone. This level of analysis does not involve an understanding of the cause of performance…an analyst must look beyond the numbers” (Hickman et al., 2013, Section 11.3, para. 7). In the real world, an analyst spends extensive time and effort researching the business strategy, operations, marketing, and other elements that have contributed to this financial performance. For this class, you will limit your investigation of the company to the historical financial analysis, ratio and competitive analysis, and the valuation of the stock. This Week 1 assignment will become Section 1 of the Week 5 final project.Prepare:Prior to beginning work on this assignment,Review the Week 1 Model Assignment (Links to an external site.).Make sure you have completed both Week 1 – Assignment 1 and Week 1 – Assignment 2. It is recommended that you keep those Excel or PDF documents available when completing this assignment.Complete the Week 1 – Learning Activity.Review Chapter 2 and Section 11.3 from Chapter 11 in the textbook.Review the Week 5 – Final Project for this course.Write:For this assignment, address the following seven parts in a Word document:Part 1: Overview of the company (one paragraph)State the name of the company.Provide a brief overview of the company you selected, including a description of its business operations.State the current market price per share.Part 2: Income statements (one to two paragraphs)Summarize key trends in revenues, operating income, and net income over the last 3 years.Part 3: Common size income statements (one paragraph)Evaluate the trends in gross margin, operating income margin, and net profit margin over the past 3 years.Part 4: Balance sheets (one to two paragraphs)Summarize key trends in total assets, total current assets, total current liabilities, long-term debt, and total shareholders’ equity over the past 3 years.Part 5: Common size balance sheets (one paragraph)Evaluate the trends in total current assets as a percent (%) of total assets, total current liabilities as a percent (%) of total assets, long-term debt as percent (%) of total assets, and total shareholders’ equity as a percent (%) of total assets over the past 3 years.Part 6: Cash flow (one paragraph)Calculate simple cash flow for the past 3 years.Show your calculations.Summarize the trend in simple cash flow for the past 3 years.Compare the simple cash flow to the net operating cash flow from the statement of cash flows for the past 3 years.Part 7: Financial analysis conclusion: (one paragraph)Determine the strengths and weaknesses of the company based primarily on the trends in items discussed from the income statements, balance sheets, common size income statements, and common size balance sheets, as well as the comments on cash flow.Create a table that indicates whether each financial fact is a strength or a weakness.Determine the overall financial strength of the company based on the financial facts included as strengths or weaknesses.Categorize the overall financial performance of the company as strong, neutral, or weak.Justify your conclusion based on the table you created.apa format

Please write a discussion and respond to this 2 peers’ Discussion PromptsDiscussion:What size health care organizations lend themselves to top-down, bottom-up, or middle- out budgeting?Which one do you believe is the most effective?Why?Respond to at least two (2) of your classmates’ or your instructor’s posts. Your responses should include elements such as follow-up questions, a further exploration of topics from the initial post, or requests for further clarification or explanation on some points made.ALL citations and references needs to be APA 7th edition format. THANK YOU!Peers#1 In top-down budgeting, senior management develops the budget with little or no input from department managers (Nowicki, 2015). In bottom-up budgeting, subordinates develop the budget and submit it to senior management for approval (Nowicki, 2015). In middle out budgeting, the combination of both top down and bottom up, senior management decides on budget parameters and subordinates submit plans within those parameters (Nowicki, 2015). For large healthcare organizations, bottom-up budgeting tends to be the best option. Because bottom-up budgeting starts at the department level, each item in the budget has a proper explanation based on past and current information (Borad, 2019). Once all departments form individual budgets, top management will approve then form a master budget (Borad, 2019In bottom-up budgeting, there is a commitment to the budget by those who developed it (Nowicki, 2015). For smaller organizations, top-down budgeting tends to be the best option. Since smaller organizations have less departments, there will be less disconnect between upper and lower-level management (Borad, 2019). This type of budgeting is a quicker approach than bottom up and it helps to overcome interdepartmental issues (Borad, 2019). Senior management tend to have the best view of the future but if the subordinates have little input, budget implementation can be difficult. Most organizations are now using the middle out budgeting approach. Middle out budgeting allows for both senior management and department leaders to work together. I believe the approach is the most effective because mid-level managers are able to see both sides, the organization as a whole and the departments. Budgets are formed within parameters set by senior management to accomplish organizational goals and department goals. Because everyone involved has a voice, budget implementation is very successful in the middle-out approach.Peers# 2My understanding is that creating a budget for your home, small business, or a large corporation, there are two major approaches: the top-down approach and the bottom-up approach. “Top-down budgeting. Incorporate budgeting, a top-down approach involves the senior management team developing a high-level budget for the entire organization” (Braun, 2017). The budget is created by the top-level executives who decide the budget amount allocated to each top and lower-level accounts. Each department takes the amount that is allocated takes those numbers and builds their own corresponding budgets within the confines of the executive-level-created budget. Middle-out Budgeting is a combination of top-down and bottom-up methods. Bottom-up budgeting. “With a bottom-up approach, the process starts in the individual departments where managers create a budget and then send it upwards for approval” (Braun, 2017). This budget is approved or not approved, revised, or sent back for modifications if needed and a master budget is created from the various departmental creations. Top-down budgeting is usually most effective because it can represent significant time savings for those who are more involved in the day-to-day rather than the overall strategy for the organization and the bottom-up approach will result in higher spending targets compared to the top-down approach.

Case 3: Everyone Does ItConduct a strategic analysis using the Executive Summary template. Prepare and submit an executive summary that includes the Statement of Integrity, three-page analysis, and references. The analysis discusses what strategic alternatives are available and needs to provide a recommended strategy.You are to work alone to analyze and prepare the Executive Summary for the case. NOTE: Click “Submit Assignment” in the upper right-hand corner of your screen to turn in your Executive Summary no later than Sunday, midnight CT. Name your file with your name and the unit number, i.e. Jones1 or Brown1. Your file should be in either Microsoft word (.doc or .docx) or rich text (.rtf) format.The following information will be required for the Executive Summary. TEXTBOOK CASE ANALYSIS GUIDANCE(CAG) These files are required for the unit textbook case studies. Synopsis of the Case: The content of the synopsis should present relevant background facts about the case under examination.Relevant Factual Information about the Problem or Decision the Organization Faced: State the precise problem or decision the organization faced. The section should include information that addressed the business issue under examination. This section should be no longer than a single paragraph.Explanation of Relevant Concepts, Theories and Applications Derived from Course Materials: This section should be the bulk of your paper. Analysis of the business problem or decision in light of the course concepts must be presented, as well as the business lesson another organization could learn from this situation. Besides citation to the text, learners must conduct research in the University library related to the top. Citing the textbook only is not enough to demonstrate you understand and can apply the course objectives. Here is where comparative and contrasting positions should be considered and examples and illustrations provided.Recommendations: Provide logical recommendations to address the business lesson identified above. The recommendations need not to be specific to the organization examined, but should consider how other organizations, if similarly situated, could lessen the impact of the problem or decision identified. Recall, that the organization under examination has already moved pasted this problem so any recommendations made, at this point, are fruitless. The focus of this section should be on what other companies should be aware of to address similar problems or decisions. Citation to the textbook alone is insufficient for analysis in this section. Learners should conduct research in the University’s library to support their positions. Depth of scholarship is not demonstrated by providing personal opinions alone, but by using examples, analogies, comparison and illustrations from the academic literature. Not only does this synthesize the material to assist the reader’s understanding, it is an effective way to present the academic sources and extend the discussion of your ideas. This section should be a paragraph or two.Alternative Recommendations: This section is not a continuation of the prior. Provide suggestions for how to avoid the problem or decision the examined organization faced. Analysis here should be may be forward- thinking, predictive or, most likely, preventative in nature but tied to the thesis statement. Again, opinion is insufficient to provide the required academic analysis. Sources, other than the text, must be provided to sustain the statements made. This section should be a paragraph, at most.Conclusion: End the assignment with a summary of the important points made in the document. No new information may be presented. Writing a conclusion can be done by rewording the opening or reformulation the topic sentences of each paragraph to make a summary for the reader. This section should be a paragraph, at most.

IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING WORD LIMIT REQUIREMENTS:Please note that each and every assignment has its own word limit. I have chosen my practicum with the Intertribal Council of Arizona (ITCA). As sovereign nations, tribes are responsible for the overall health and wellness of their communities. The ITCA is increasingly involved in public health activities, regulation, and service delivery. Such efforts may include, but are not limited to, community health assessment (CHA) and improvement planning, health promotion and disease prevention, public health policy development and law enforcement, and quality improvement in service delivery. Many tribal health departments are engaging tribal and community leadership in CHAs to identify and prioritize important health issues in order to plan, adapt and respond to important health concerns in their community. Assessment is a critical public health function and a national strategic priority for tribes, states and local health departments. Efforts to develop model standards for public health began in the late 1970s when the US Department of Health Education and Welfare released the Healthy People: The Surgeon General’s Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Over the decades, a number of approaches to measure public health performance were developed, such as the Assessment Protocol for Excellence in Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Public Health Performance Standards Program, in which approximately 25 tribes participated. These efforts, among others, launched the development of an accreditation program for local, state, tribal and territorial health departments. Collecting health data within a tribal community carries certain risks to both individuals and communities. Therefore, it is critical to involve tribal councils, health committees and/or the community at-large in the CHA process to ensure neither individuals nor the community is harmed. Tribes have an inherent right to protect and ensure the safety of their citizenry, and this includes the manner in which data are collected, stored, analyzed, and reported. Many tribes have formal and informal protocols for obtaining the appropriate approvals to collect data within their community. Respect for such tribal protocols and policies ensure that high ethical safeguards are maintained.Respond to the bold paragraph ABOVE by using one of the option below… in APA format with At least two references and a minimum of 200 words….. .(The List of References should not be older than 2016 and should not be included in the word count.) Include at least one scholarly reference and appropriate in-text citations and Address all points on the DQ. One point will be deducted for not addressing each item mentioned above. Remember that presenting someone else’s work as your own is plagiarism. Ask a probing question.Share an insight from having read your colleague’s posting.Offer and support an opinion.Validate an idea with your own experience.Make a suggestion.Expand on your colleague’s posting.Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources.It is important that you cover all the topics identified in the assignment. Covering the topic does not mean mentioning the topic BUT presenting an explanation from the context of ethics and the readings for this classTo get maximum points you need to follow the requirements listed for this assignments 1) look at the word/page limits 2) review and follow APA rules 3) create subheadings to identify the key sections you are presenting and 4) Free from typographical and sentence construction errors.REMEMBER IN APA FORMAT JOURNAL TITLES AND VOLUME NUMBERS ARE ITALICIZED.ReferencesAmerican Psychological Association. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th Ed.). Washington, DC: Author.