IAH 206 WHFS
WRITING ASSIGNMENT #4: The How Americas Food Giants Swallowed the Family Farms article and how it connects with other of our themes
Insert in the drop box for Writing Assignment #4 on D2L.
As noted on the syllabus: 300-400 words
Instructions:
The story in How Americas Food Giants Swallowed the Family Farms has connections to various of our readings, which is not surprising in that various of the claims, thesis, ideas that we are exploring in this course have interconnections. Sometimes these are causal connections, and sometime they are conceptual connections; in any case, it is useful to think about them together.
Write an essay in which you explain how the story laid out in the Guardian article
can be analyzed in terms of, or otherwise connected to, at least two of the following:
(1) the analysis given by Holt-Gimenez and Patel in
1) develop a algorithm that detects land surface change
2) provide estimates of the total surface area where land cover change has been detected by your algorithm over all years (1992-2010) and the change that occurs between each year (i.e. the rate of change).
3) produce a map highlighting the areas that have changed and in which year that change occurred. The map must be of publication quality.
