GGH2601 Assignment 1 (DETAILED ANSWERS Semester 1 2026 - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED

GGH2601 Assignment 1 (DETAILED ANSWERS Semester 1 2026 - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED Answers, guidelines, workings and references.. Assignment 01 The African Challenge: People and the Environment GGH2601 Semester 1 Department of Geography General instructions • This assignment contributes 50% towards your year mark. • You are advised to read and understand the questions, then decide on how you will structure your answer to each question. • You are welcome and encouraged to make use of various references/sources (a minimum of ten sources) e.g., journal articles and reports. Make sure you do not “cut and paste” from these references or the internet. Extract information from the source and put it in your OWN words AND acknowledge the reference in the text of your answer and in a separate reference list. • Acknowledge all your sources as the first step to avoid plagiarism. Do not collude or copy work from each other, as this will lead to your work receiving very low or even no marks. • Your assignment will be submitted through similarity software (TURNITIN), and when submitting your assignment, you must accept the declaration that will facilitate this submission. • The similarity software identifies plagiarism as well as writing generated by AI and your final mark could be negatively impacted upon by the equivalent of the similarity and/or AI percentage identified by the software. Africa has faced severe weather conditions in recent years, which have negatively impacted development. Assume the role of a convenor of a presidential task team and discuss mitigation strategies specifically tailored for your country to combat the impacts of climate change. • Your assignment must be typed using a 12-font size and 1.5 line spacing. Your assignment must be saved in a PDF Adobe format. • Written and scanned PDF assignments will NOT be marked, and you will obtain a zero mark. • The assignment must be submitted via the assignment shell (Assessment 01) on your main myUnisa site as a single Adobe PDF file.The scramble for Africa has been well documented. Critically discuss sustainable agricultural practices that can be adopted in Africa to effectively mitigate the impacts of climate change Discuss some of the implications of colonialism for economic and social aspects of development on the African continent. ggh2602 ghh2605 Examine the importance of achieving economic growth and poverty reduction as strategies for accelerating development on the African continent. ggh2603 ggh2604 Discuss how diversity on the African continent can be viewed as fueling conflict. 20 Marks Question 2 The African continent is experiencing rapid population growth, which will inevitably cause challenges in terms of the availability of resources. Discuss how using Sustainable Development Goals 11 and 17 can help mitigate this challenge. General instructions Africa has faced severe weather conditions in recent years, which have negatively impacted development. Assume the role of a convenor of a presidential task team and discuss mitigation strategies specifically tailored for your country to combat the impacts of climate change. Africa has faced severe weather conditions in recent years, which have negatively impacted development. Assume the role of a convenor of a presidential task team and discuss mitigation strategies specifically tailored for your country to combat the impacts of climate change. • This assignment contributes 50% towards your year mark. • You are advised to read and understand the questions, then decide on how you will structure your answer to each question. • You are welcome and encouraged to make use of various references/sources (a minimum of ten sources) e.g., journal articles and reports. Make sure you do not “cut and paste” from these references or the internet. Extract information from the source and put it in your OWN words AND acknowledge the reference in the text of your answer and in a separate reference list. • Acknowledge all your sources as the first step to avoid plagiarism. Do not collude or copy work from each other, as this will lead to your work receiving very low or even no marks. • Your assignment will be submitted through similarity software (TURNITIN), and when submitting your assignment, you must accept the declaration that will facilitate this submission. • The similarity software identifies plagiarism as well as writing generated by AI and your final mark could be negatively impacted upon by the equivalent of the similarity and/or AI percentage identified by the software. Discuss, by referring to African examples (referenced) how rural livelihoods are affected by droughts • Your assignment must be typed using a 12-font size and 1.5 line spacing. Your assignment must be saved in a PDF Adobe format. • Written and scanned PDF assignments will NOT be marked, and you will obtain a zero mark. • The assignment must be submitted via the assignment shell (Assessment 01) on your main myUnisa site as a single Adobe PDF file. Assignment 01 The African Challenge: People and the Environment GGH2601 Semester 1 Critically discuss sustainable agricultural practices that can be adopted in Africa to effectively mitigate the impacts of climate change Department of Geography General instructions • This assignment contributes 50% towards your year mark. • You are advised to read and understand the questions, then decide on how you will structure your answer to each question. Africa has faced severe weather conditions in recent years, which have negatively impacted development. Assume the role of a convenor of a presidential task team and discuss mitigation strategies specifically tailored for your country to combat the impacts of climate change. • You are welcome and encouraged to make use of various references/sources (a minimum of ten sources) e.g., journal articles and reports. Make sure you do not “cut and paste” from these references or the internet. Extract information from the source and put it in your OWN words AND acknowledge the reference in the text of your answer and in a separate reference list. • Acknowledge all your sources as the first step to avoid plagiarism. Do not collude or copy work from each other, as this will lead to your work receiving very low or even no marks. • Your assignment will be submitted through similarity software (TURNITIN), and when submitting your assignment, you must accept the declaration that will facilitate this submission. • The similarity software identifies plagiarism as well as writing generated by AI and your final mark could be negatively impacted upon by the equivalent of the similarity and/or AI percentage identified by the software. Africa has faced severe weather conditions in recent years, which have negatively impacted development. Assume the role of a convenor of a presidential task team and discuss mitigation strategies specifically tailored for your country to combat the impacts of climate change. • Your assignment must be typed using a 12-font size and 1.5 line spacing. Your assignment must be saved in a PDF Adobe format. • Written and scanned PDF assignments will NOT be marked, and you will obtain a zero mark. • The assignment must be submitted via the assignment shell (Assessment 01) on your main myUnisa site as a single Adobe PDF file.The scramble for Africa has been well documented. Discuss some of the implications of colonialism for economic and social aspects of development on the African continent. ggh2602 ghh2605 Examine the importance of achieving economic growth and poverty reduction as strategies for accelerating development on the African continent. ggh2603 ggh2604 Discuss how diversity on the African continent can be viewed as fueling conflict. 20 Marks Question 2 The African continent is experiencing rapid population growth, which will inevitably cause challenges in terms of the availability of resources. Discuss how using Sustainable Development Goals 11 and 17 can help mitigate this challenge. General instructions • This assignment contributes 50% towards your year mark. • You are advised to read and understand the questions, then decide on how you will structure your answer to each question. • You are welcome and encouraged to make use of various references/sources (a minimum of ten sources) e.g., journal articles and reports. Make sure you do not “cut and paste” from these references or the internet. Extract information from the source and put it in your OWN words AND acknowledge the reference in the text of your answer and in a separate reference list. Africa has faced severe weather conditions in recent years, which have negatively impacted development. Assume the role of a convenor of a presidential task team and discuss mitigation strategies specifically tailored for your country to combat the impacts of climate change. • Acknowledge all your sources as the first step to avoid plagiarism. Do not collude or copy work from each other, as this will lead to your work receiving very low or even no marks. • Your assignment will be submitted through similarity software (TURNITIN), and when submitting your assignment, you must accept the declaration that will facilitate this submission. • The similarity software identifies plagiarism as well as writing generated by AI and your final mark could be negatively impacted upon by the equivalent of the similarity and/or AI percentage identified by the software. • Your assignment must be typed using a 12-font size and 1.5 line spacing. Your assignment must be saved in a PDF Adobe format. • Written and scanned PDF assignments will NOT be marked, and you will obtain a zero mark. • The assignment must be submitted via the assignment shell (Assessment 01) on your main myUnisa site as a single Adobe PDF file. Linking the question with the information from the internet. Several students struggled to link the question. E.g. students only discussed unemployment, causes of urbanization, pull and push factors but did not discuss the impact of urbanization on service delivery. Vice versa. Discussed the impacts of urbanization on biodiversity (You need to link this to the question, not just discuss it generally). • Defined what urbanization is (The question did not require this). • Several students did not read and understand what Question 2 required. Several students were discussing Sustainable Development Goals but failed to link it to Sustainable Urbanization. • Students copied from the UNDP document Sustainable Urbanization Strategies. • A lot of copying and pasting from the internet. As previously emphasized copy and paste is not research but plagiarism. • You cannot use bullet points when the questions says discuss Read less