Book title: Environment, Food, Culture and Identity: A Global Perspective

Editor:  Suleyman M. Demi & Njoki N. Wane

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of Contents

pages i – xi

Chapter 1: Environment, Food, Culture and Identity: A Global Perspective, An Introduction

Suleyman M. Demi, Njoki Wane and Carmen Armignonette

pages 1-16

Chapter 2: Critical Examination of Environmental Education Through the Pedagogy of Indigenous Food Cultures

Suleyman M. Demi

pages 17 – 33

Chapter 3: Interrogating Food and Environmental Policies in Canada in Light of Persistent Inequalities

Chinelo Dorothy Nzenwata

pages 34 – 54

Chapter 4: Healing the Land and Heeding the Call of “Dzomo ḽa Mupo”, the Voice of the Earth

Mphaṱheleni Makaulule, Patricia Lethole, Vhonani Ṋetshandama, Butshabelo Mabunda, Enid Pitsoane, Janet McIntyre-Mills, and Norma Romm

pages 55 – 72

Chapter 5: Commercializing the Sacred and Its Implications on Environmental Health, Culture and Food Production in Africa: A Case of Ghana

Isaac N. Darko and Suleyman M. Demi

pages 73 – 87

Chapter 6: Effects of Decentralization on Environmental Sustainability and Indigenous Food Systems in Ghana

Suleyman M. Demi, Anisatu Alhassan and Rahama Adam

pages 88 – 105

Chapter 7: Food (In)Security: The ‘Ragging War’ of Jollof Rice in West Africa

Paul Banahene Adjei

pages 106 – 114

Chapter 8: Indigenous Food Preparation and Processing Knowledges among Bantu-Speaking Communities in Kenya

Njoki N. Wane

pages 115 – 123

Chapter 9: Cultural Connection and Identity with Food: From Heart to Health


Cindy Sinclair, Kawalpreet Kaur, Nishat Mehdi, Shayla Ahmed, Nooshin Sarreshrehdari

pages 124 -136

Chapter 10: The Neoliberal Marginalization of Indigeneity: A Case for “Orphaned Indigenous Food Crops”

Morris D. C. Komakech and Chantal Nyirakanani

pages 137 – 155

Chapter 11: Healing Beyond the Body: Culture, Beliefs and Environment in Indigenous African Health Practices

Isaac N. Darko and Suleyman M. Demi

pages 156 – 169

Chapter 12: Determinants of Incomes for Farmers with Disabilities

Mark Arhin and Michael M. A Antwi

pages 170 – 186