
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