Geography/atlas of an ingredient:
Atlas of an Ingredient:
Purpose:
Create a small atlas thatillustrates the significance to the human diet of any single food ingredient which depict various themes that demonstrate its cultural and economic importance on several geographic scales. Once you have ensured that adequate information is available, you are welcome to choose specific content. The following list contains several examples of the themes that might be included:
1. origin and dispersal
2. global patterns of consumption
3. global patterns of production
4. national patterns of consumption
5. national patterns of production
6. major exporting nations
7. major importing nations
8. significance in national cuisines
9. caloric importance in diet
Requirements:
The atlas must include:
• Aninformative 300 to 500 word introduction which provides a rationale for the choice of topic, accounts for the selection of the plates,details the sources of information and explains the significance of the ingredient. Use any standard reference system to source text.
• A minimum of five maps (including inserts where appropriate) with sources
• A 100-200 word narrative which can be shown in an insert or on separate pages
• A small bibliography of 5-6 publications that directs the reader to complementary scholarly and web materials.Papers must be submitted to Turnitin, using the link shown on Blackboard.
Sources of Information:
Outline or base maps at every geographical scale are readily available on the internet as a basis to compile individual map plates,which can be constructed either manually in hard copy or electronically with the assistance of any on-line digital mapping software such as those that are posted on Blackboard. When available, existing mapscan be used if appropriately modified for the assignment. Content can be found in numerous food atlases, public and private statistical collection agencies, the United Nations, agricultural censuses, academic journals and books that are devoted to the chosen topic, including many which are contained in the course reading list.
Assessment:
• originality of the map plates
• effective use of map elements such as legends, scale and orientation
• differentiation among varieties or species
• choice of metric used to depict distribution such as standardization of statistics
• cartographic effectiveness in displaying the spatial information
• aesthetics of contents, legibility and overall package
• (intellectual) authority of sourcesfor both written passages and the maps
• quality of the narrative