Talk:Geography of food

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Before making any edits, I want to describe the issues I have found with this article, and brainstorm possible solutions.

First, there are multiple instances of normative language that need to be quantified with data or changed altogether.

For example, "the study of food has not been confined to a single discipline, and has received attention from a huge range of diverse sources" needs a citation proving its validity, and for the word huge to be removed.

Similarly, a citation is needed when claiming "Food production was the first element of food to receive extensive attention from geographers".

When discussing Malthus' theory, the aside about the Irish Potato Famine feels distracting, and doesn't add to the paragraph. While the Irish Potato Famine is a fantastic example for relating food shortages to population, the political aspect (read: everything in parenthesis) could be removed or relocated to a new section of the article that details the political aspects of food.

To help push this article further, including the aforementioned section regarding the politics of food on a global scale could work. Basically this would be expanding on the political aside at the end of the paragraph on Malthus. It could potentially include topics such as how food is adapted by different cultures to meet expectations, and how some nations export food they desperately need to feed their own population. Such a section could be tied back in to the section relating to food consumption, but expand it to include how power impacts who gets food, and how much.

In the first sentence of the "Food Consumption" section, the word 'of' is mistyped as 'on'. Also "a great deal" should be reworded or cited to avoid being normative.

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· The first, second, and third external links were either nonfunctional or non responsive. · I checked the first 6 references for accuracy, function, relevance, and importance. All are sound. · The article in its current form has a strong structure and a logical flow of topics, making any additions relatively simple.

Freembra (talk) 02:50, 20 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Added 2 sentences regarding aeolian erosion. Freembra (talk) 06:42, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I went through and made basic edits to sentence structure, word choice, typos, and other such things. Freembra (talk) 02:08, 5 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Added image of aeolian wind erosion Freembra (talk) 05:40, 12 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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