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Y9 IGCSE Food & Nutrition (0648) Unit 1 A02 Class: ( )

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Y9 IGCSE Food & Nutrition Unit 1

A02 -- Handling Information & Solving Problems
Homework Tasks

Look at the following graph and the description of the graph. Answer the questions that follow.

The index score refers to the number of people in hunger in every 1000 people.

The data from the graph is represented by the table below for your better understanding:

No. of people in hunger in every 1000 people

in different countries and years 2017/1992 (rounded to 1 person)
Country Year 1992 Year 2017 Difference Continent

China 26 8 -18

Nepal 43 22 -21

Myanmar 56 23 -33

Sri Lanka 32 26 -6 Asia

Bangladesh 54 27 -27

India 46 31 -15

Pakistan 43 33 -10

Description of Data
1. Decrease in all of the countries’ global hunger index score.
2. Largest decrease of hunger index score in Myanmar, Bangladesh and Nepal.
3. Small decrease in Sri Lanka, India and Pakistan.
4. Only China’s 2017 index score is on a single-digit.
(a) Explain why lowered its hunger index score by 18, why is there such a large difference? Discus
socially, environmentally and economically. (10)

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(b) Provide reasons why all the chosen countries for the graph are in Asia. (4)

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(c) India is also in Asia. Compare the hunger index score of India and Myanmar or Bangladesh.
Discuss socially, environmentally, economically, and how the relationship between different other
countries affecting a less dramatic drop in the hunger index score of India compared to its fellow
countries around it. (26)

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