SL Paper 1
The map shows selected African countries suffering from severe food insecurity in 2017.
[Source: Courtesy Africa Center for Strategic Studies.]
Estimate the area of the country of Nigeria, in km2. Show your working.
Outline one of the main components of the food security index.
Explain two human factors that may have led to high food insecurity in countries such as those shown.
Examine how food production systems can use water and energy more sustainably.
Examine how different stakeholders influence the diets of individuals and societies.
Examine ways in which people’s dietary choices are sometimes influenced by different types of transnational corporation (TNC).
Examine the role of diffusion and barriers in the spread of disease.
The graph shows the total amount of food waste that is created each year in selected world regions with varying population growth rates.
[Source: © FAO. 2011. Page 5. Global food losses and food waste – Extent, causes and prevention.
https://www.fao.org/3/mb060e/mb060e.pdf. Reproduced with permission.]
State which world region has the least food waste created by food producers and shops.
Estimate the amount of food waste, in billions of tonnes, created by consumers in North America.
Outline how vertical farming can help increase long-term global food availability.
Explain two strengths of food waste reduction as a strategy to improve food security in the world regions shown on the graph.
Examine how spatial variations in food consumption can impact upon life expectancy.
Examine the reasons why food insecurity remains high in many places.
The map shows the global pattern of type 2 diabetes (sometimes classified globally as a disease of affluence) in 2000 and the numbers of people affected by this disease in 2000 and 2030 (projected).
[Source: adapted from World Health Organization, Diabetes Action Now: An Initiative of the
World Health Organization and the International Diabetes Federation, WHO/IDF, page 8, 2004]
Identify the percentage of people affected by diabetes in Europe in 2000.
State the region with the highest rate of increase in diabetes between 2000 and 2030.
Suggest two reasons, other than population growth, why the number of people suffering from diseases of affluence is projected to increase globally.
Explain one global and one local action that could be undertaken to manage a pandemic such as diabetes.
Examine the view that food waste reduction is the best way to achieve future food security.
Examine the relative importance of physical and human factors in the diffusion over time of one vector-borne disease.
The graph shows the incidence of dengue fever (a vector-borne disease) in an Asian country between 2010 and 2012 by age group.
[Source: Bracebridge, S., 2015. Age-specific dengue fever incidence rates, Taiwan, 2010–2012. [online] Available at:
https://figshare.com/articles/_Age_specific_dengue_fever_incidence_rates_Taiwan_2010_8211_2012_/1345062/1
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/). [Accessed 6 May 2020]. Source adapted.]
State the age group which had the highest incidence of dengue fever in 2012.
Estimate the mean incidence rate of dengue fever for all years in the 20–24 age group.
Outline one strategy used to limit the spread of a water-borne disease.
Explain how using genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to increase food production can lead to one environmental disadvantage.
Explain how using genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to increase food production can lead to one social disadvantage.
Examine the relative importance of prevention and treatment in limiting the spread of one or more diseases.
Examine how governments and other stakeholders can affect the severity of famine.
[Source: Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN), 2013. Lima, Peru. Nasca, Peru, Series J731, Sheet 1941 3 (30 n 3), 1:50000. Lima: IGN. Source adapted.]
State the four-figure grid reference for the spot height of 1062 metres in the northeast of the map.
Estimate the area, in km2 , of cultivated land to the west of easting 02.
Outline one way in which the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) could help increase food production from cultivated land.
Explain one physical factor and one human factor contributing to the diffusion of one named water-borne disease through an area such as this.
Examine how different factors have contributed to famine in one or more countries or areas.
Examine possible ways to improve food availability in different places.