Answer in Marketing for Sheehama Asser #197341

Assignment one

Few companies do as much to apply the societal marketing concept and to build relationships with customers.

One of the early members of the societal marketing movement, today the premium ice maker continues it’s commitment to a wide range of ecological and social causes. The company directs more than 10 percent of its profits to causes Marketing tools to develop stronger bonds with customer financial and social benefits.

You as a marketing manager for ReconAfrica., an oil prospecting company in Kavango might be faced with major challenges . 

Your task is to analyze the challenges the company may face in terms social ecological causes, balance profits , consumers wants and society interests.

(100 marks)

Due date is 26 May 2021.

As a marketing manager for ReconAfrica, I identified the issues facing Kavango basin is to balance the food security in the area as well as protecting community forests anongside the operations of oil firms. The challenges that people in Kavango River Basin face is environmental degradation as oil firms continue to extract more oil. This has tempered with the overall ecosystem of the region jeopardizing the overall agricultural productivity of the area. As individuals focus on reviving the area, they pursue community forest protection which again decreases further farmlands. The continuous loss of livestock and crops due to environmental degradation and strategies of protecting forests in the region has threatened the livelihoods of many people. The society continues to struggle to balance these interest of increasing farmland, which is the source of income to many people, allow oil companies to continue degrading the ecosystem or pursue with the community forest protection strategies. As a manager, I have focus bon this aspect to advice the company what could be done to relieve some of these burdens and create an amicable co-existence between the community and the company.