DHS 2025 WA2 H1 Mock Paper (Set B)

Name: Index Number: Class: 5C_____ DUNMAN HIGH SCHOOL Weighted Assessment 2 (Mock Paper B) Year 5 Economics (Higher 1) 8843/01 Paper 1 Case Study Questions 50 Minutes The UK food crisis Table 1: United Kingdom Price Indices Year 2011 2012 2013 2014 Consumer Prices, General Indices (2000=100) 140.6 144.90 148.80 151.20 Consumer Prices, Food Indices (2000=100) 147.10 152.40 155.40 153.10 Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), UK

Extract 1: Household spending on food Average household spend increased nearly 3% between 2013 and 2014 from £517.30 a week (adjusted for inflation) to £531.30, with the amount spent on recreation and transport increasing. But average household spend on food remained static at £58.80 a week, a ccounting for 11% of total expenditure – with no change since 2011. The report from the ONS said this was partly due to the “increase of discount supermarket chains, increasing consumer choice and competition in the market”. This comes at a time when farm prices are at their lowest for years and farm business cash flow is tight. The decline in household spending started in 2007, just before the economic downturn. The UK economy showed signs of increasing momentum throughout 2013 and into 2014. Source: Farmers Weekly UK, 9 Dec 2015 Extract 2: A supermarket price war is bad news for Britain’s ability to feed itself There has been a global explosion of affluence, especially in Asia. At the beginning of this century, 14% of the world's middle classes were there. By 2050, 68% will be in Asia, and they are insisting on eating as we do, with meat consumption in China alone almost quadrupling over the past three decades. Already Chinese retailers are willing to pay more for ungraded, unpacked apples than British supermarkets will pay for graded and packed. At least if we have access to a robust internal food market we'll be protected from some of the worst price excesses. But there is another, more moral issue. The global population is expected to rise from seven billion now to more than nine billion by 2050. Even so, this country still has the capacity to get back above the 70% self -sufficiency it achieved 30 years ago. It's noticeable that the decline, which kicked in through the late 80s and early 90s, corresponds directly with a Thatcherite change in planning laws that allowed for the massive expansion of the supermarket sector into out-of-town megastores and, with it, the wars on price that have forced so many British farmers to give up farming. Source: The Guardian, 8 June 2014 Extract 3: Rich nations spend $250 billion on farm subsidies, hurting poor growers Rich nations are spending $250 billion annually subsidising their agricultural sectors to the detriment of poor farmers as they artificially lower prices for some crops and block market access for growe