Edexcel Geography A2 Unit 4: Life on the Margins- 9th June 2017

haha yes i meant if you thought its right as a strategy..

idk about it being against human rights , many people suffer from having large families , most african/arab/indian poor families have 6+ children and its a struggle to feed them all (so kids may die from malnutrition) which leads to other problems that families use to remove their burdens such as early marriages like in Bangladesh, or not being able to give them an education because all the energy and money has to go into providing food. So to me population control may actually remove their burden. And when i say population control i definitely don't mean a one child policy like in China because yes that would lead to an ageing population in the economy. I mean like a 2 or 3 child policy which would definitely help to lower the birth rates in developing countries ( i don't know if i would have to specify that in my report though)

Do you guys think that it's better to structure it such as Local, National and International strategies or like you have suggested, Short tem relief, Capacity building and System redesign or just lay it out as having just strategies first then classify it into groups later into the paragraph e.g. Reducing consumption of meat, Sustainable agriculture, Polyculture etc.
Thanks!

Does anyone have examples of A grade responses? I would like to have one just to see the standard for an A grade clearly. Thanks xx

To some extent yes. Maybe due to the 'range of different locations'? But I don't think it is encouraging you to use non-food insecure locations.

I think it is important for the majority of your locations to be food insecure so that you can assess the importance of it, as a strategy to improve food insecurity. Although I guess you could evaluate by suggesting it 'is not important' because it has not been successfully used to improve food insecurity in a food insecure country

The question is not about comparing the characteristics of food insecurity between different countries (EQ1) which I feel your suggestion may risk.

Obviously we cannot be certain - But my judgement is based upon past examiner reports and my teachers' advice. Your decision may be perfectly creditable also.

Yes, the 'range of differnt locations' and in the mark scheme for the reserach to access top band they have a section on 'wide range and relevant case studies used (by scale or location)' but if they specifiy scale in the pre release I thought it would make sense to have a range .

Food insecurity does exsist within countries though.

Roughly how many pages are you guys being able to write in 1hr and 30 mins?

Usually 6-7 pages. Timing was always an issue for me. What about you?

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I haven't tried writing it out in timed conditions yet. But the draft I've written is pretty long. How many case studies are you using?

8 (3 low-techs, 3 high-techs and 2 system redesigns)

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Wow, that's a lot of case studies. How long do you spend on each case study? If you have managed to successfully complete one in timed conditios

8 (3 low-techs, 3 high-techs and 2 system redesigns)

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Wow, that's a lot of case studies. How long do you spend on each case study? If you have managed to successfully complete one in timed conditios

Does anyone have any tips in regards to timing? Within the 90 minutes that we have I have only been able to write about my first three strategies. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I'm thinking my paragraphs are maybe a bit long and any suggestions to cut particular bits out would be greatly appreciated. Also any other advice would be taken on board. And by the way the question our teacher set was 'Assess the view that strategies to improve food security are important on both local and international levels'. The attached images are of one of my local strategies - just an indication of how long my paragraphs are.

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Out of interest, have you learned your case studies yet? or did you use your notes to write this?

can someone can explain the food banks case study in the UK please or provide good links ?

Thanks