Chapter 22, Section 1
1. Cash-crop production has done the following three problems to the economy of this region. They include: creating a lot of imbalances among the countries, creating great amount of risk and causes problems for farmers who are trying to meet their own food needs.
2. Transportation and communication in Africa is changing constantly. Uganda is repairing the heavily traveled Trans-African Highway, and new highways are being built. Communications wise, also there are changes being made such as television. Nigeria is planning to link all parts of its railroad system. TV signals are very costly outside of urban areas, but new sattelite technologies will improve the reach of television. Telephone service is also limited especially in rural areas. However the number of main telephone lines and mobile phones nearly tripled between 2000 and 2004.
Creative Writing:
A few of the possible reasons that these countries might be in so much debt it do to agricultural, industrial, and trade issues. Thes countries spend a lot of money on farming and crops, also they are trying to get more industrial so they are probable using money on that, and then also with technologies like communications and transportations that is costing money.
Chapter 22, Section 2
1. Drought, human activity and wars are a few of the many reasons for food shortages in countries south of the Sahara.
2. Three of the steps that have been taken by the African countries to help preserve the environment consist of the formation of the new ranching laws, creation of huge game reserves to help protect endangeres species and the increase of protection towards the tropical forests.
Creative Writing:
The threats to people in Africa are war and famine, and the threats on the environment are desertification and poaching, these two things are very similar. For example war destroys a persons home and the environment that one lives in, and desertification destroys the animals habitat and home. Also poaching famine pretty much acts like poaching by killing hundreds of people and causing them to die off just as poaching does.
