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Verbal·Information and Ideas·Command of Evidence

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Social or ecological service	Project leaders	Stakeholders	General public
increase in global biodiversity	5	8	17
provision of food	4	15	8
improvement of community building	17	12	10
improvement of local microclimate	13	14	20
provision of medicinal plants	22	21	5

Esther Sanyé-Mengual, Kathrin Specht, and their team surveyed three groups of people in Bologna, Italy—leaders of urban agriculture projects, stakeholders in urban agriculture (e.g., food researchers and urban farming associations), and the general public—to compare their views about the extent to which urban agriculture contributes to 25 social or ecological services that the team identified. The researchers used these ratings to rank the services for each group, with a ranking of 1 indicating that a group perceives that urban agriculture benefits that service the most. Using only the rankings shown in the table, a city planner in Bologna who is promoting a new urban agriculture project concludes that advertisements aimed at stakeholders should emphasize the project’s benefit to the increase in global biodiversity.

Which choice best describes data in the table that support the city planner’s conclusion?

A

The improvement of community building was ranked lower for stakeholders than it was for project leaders.

B

The increase in global biodiversity was ranked higher for the general public than it was for stakeholders.

C

The provision of medicinal plants was ranked higher for stakeholders than was the increase in global biodiversity.

D

The increase in global biodiversity was ranked higher for stakeholders than were the other four services.