ASSIGNMENT

Assignment



Assignment

Question 1:

Collier recommended measures to strengthen international and national controls to prevent natural resources from financing warring factions. They also suggested steps to reduce domestic conflicts over access to natural wealth, including responsible, just and economically productive resource management by African governments, with equitable distribution of wealth to all stakeholders, in particular local communities.

With such an approach, Reddy argued, the exploitation of natural resources can be better directed towards improving society as a whole, by reducing competition and transforming natural wealth from a peace liability to a peace asset.

The presence of a valuable natural resource is not, by itself, a “curse” destined to incite conflict. Rather, argues University of London lecturer Abiodun Alao, the central issue is how such resources are used and the money they generate is distributed. The future of the continent depends largely on how well it manages these resources. Taking a broad look at natural resources and conflict, it seems obvious that at the centre of most of the problem is governance.

Question 2:

Most of the countries should have a chance of producing goods on their own without having the United States and other economically developed countries interfering. If citizens felt that they could produce on their own without imports taking over, I feel that they can produce their own fertilizers and grow their own crops, giving them a chance to bring up their poor economy.

Many countries have been producing their own milk, but powdered milk which has been imported from the United States are cheaper and is consumed at a larger scale than their own milk. Powdered milk has a long shelf life but milk can only last for two days, and in Countries, milk is dumped because it had become rotten due to a low demand for their own milk due to the ...