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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Indigenous food"”.
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Total arsenic and arsenic speciation in indigenous food stuffs
… the arsenic species found in a range of food stuffs together with growing environments and toxicity issues. Total arsenic concentrations in fish tissue and vegetable crops were determined by ICP-MS following microwave-assisted acid digestion using nitric acid/hydrogen peroxide, trypsin …
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Indigenous food patterns of low income individuals from North Central United States
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1984 P73
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Indigenous food patterns of low income individuals from North Central United States
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1984 P73
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Governing Indigenous food systems: Global practices and local realities in Sri Lanka
… thesis focuses on advancing the understanding of Indigenous food system governance. Indigenous communities inhabit various geographical areas, each encountering distinct climate changes that affect their food systems. Specific governance strategies designed to address these unique climate changes …
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Sowing the Seeds of Climate Resilient Indigenous Food Systems in Northwestern Ontario: Addressing Barriers to Food Security and Envisioning Pathways Forward
… in Northern Ontario currently experience their food systems. It also explores ways to build future climate resilience. This research is embedded in the work of the Braiding Food Systems project between the University of Guelph and three First Nations communities in Northern Ontario: …
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The perceptions of mothers or caregivers on the use of indigenous food for complementary feeding of infants from 6 to 12 months
… child’s growth and development as new and solid foods are introduced. The types of food given to the child for complementary feeding depend heavily on mothers' and caregivers' perceptions of various foods. This research used a qualitative approach and exploratory design to explore the perceptions …
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Food as helper, food as healer: How Cree Elders incorporate food into their helping and healing practices and the implications for Indigenous food sovereignty
… policies and prejudices have deeply affected Indigenous food systems and thus Indigenous bodies. For Cree peoples in Manitoba, these policies include the criminalization of practicing traditional medicines, residential schools and land dispossession in the name of development. However, despite …
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Decolonizing Diet
… diseases currently threaten the survival of Indigenous people and culture. Many innovative individuals from diverse Indigenous nations combat the threat that obesity and diabetes pose by a return to food ways practiced by Indigenous people prior to the arrival of Europeans and the replacement …
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Unsettling food sovereignty in Canada: Settler roles and responsibilities; tensions and (im)possibilities
Critical Indigenous food sovereignty activists and scholars have called settler food sovereignty movements to complicate our understandings of food and food systems in so-called Canada (Coté, 2016; Morrison, 2011; Manson, 2015). These calls include requests for settlers to rethink …
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Exploring culturally meaningful definitions of justice and resilience through the lens of sovereign Indigenous foodways
… I explore frameworks of environmental justice, food justice, and community resilience that center Indigenous communities and their perspectives. First, I conducted an integrative literature review on environmental injustice that uniquely impacts Indigenous communities, specifically as it relates …
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From grassroots to global: unintended consequences of a Bolivian quinoa economy
… in contradiction with their political support of food sovereignty by participating in a global quinoa economy. This research gives agency to the farmers by reframing the Bolivian quinoa story to show how farmers succeeded in overcoming “development” projects. My research is inspired by two brief …
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Growing connections: exploring hands-on garden programs as a tool for food education and community outreach
Many Americans are unaware of where their food comes from due to a significant disconnect between the broader population and their foodshed (Deelstra & Girardet 2017). This disconnect leads to uninformed adults and children not being able to identify the origins of food products (Newsela 2017). The …
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Assessing the contribution of household food production to food security and sovereignty at Nkomazi Local Municipality, Mpumalanga Province in South Africa
Nationally South Africa is assumed to be food secured, whilst many people at household level still face hunger and poverty daily. This has been exacerbated by population growth and food prices that continue to increase, household therefore need to find means to survive. Hence the study aims to …
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The utilisation of indigenous foods in enhancing household food security in the rural area of eMaphephetheni, KwaZulu-Natal
Food insecurity is predominant in rural communities. In South Africa rural households experience food and nutritional insecurity. The potential of eradicating food Insecurity through indigenous foods is enormous. The study focuses on how indigenous foods could be used to improve household food …
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Early formative subsistence and agriculture in southeastern Mesoamerica
… subsistence. Here, I propose that cultivation of indigenous food plants was also an important component in the subsistence system and was established prior to the introduction of non-local domesticated plants such as maize. The development of cultivation practices probably occurred as a gradual …
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Identifying impacts of non-climatic factors on food security of Indigenous Peoples in the pan-Arctic region
This thesis explores the vulnerability of Arctic Indigenous food systems to food insecurity resulting from the combined impacts of climatic and non-climatic stressors. While climate change poses significant threats to traditional food practices and access, this study emphasizes the importance of …
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Through an Indigenous Lens Food Security is Food Sovereignty: Case studies of Maori of Aotearoa New Zealand and Andeans people of Peru
… on a cross-cultural study and analysis of two Indigenous1 knowledge systems: Andean/Quechua2 people of Peru and Māori3 of Aotearoa - New Zealand. This study takes a novel approach by using the Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) theory to examine the good-living philosophies of Allin Kawsay …
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Exploring challenges and intervention strategies for harvesting Mopane worms in conservation areas: A case study of selected areas in Vhembe District Municipality
… of Mopane worms. As Mopane worms are an indigenous staple crucial for local livelihoods, their decline poses significant concerns for the communities dependent on them. The overharvesting of Mopane worms without adequate ecosystem protection led to environmental unsustainability. This …
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Food Sovereignty, Gender And Transitions In Traditional Culinary Knowledge In The Chinantla, Oaxaca, Mexico
… various factors causing a transition from food self-reliance to dependence on industrial food supply chains. This shift has challenged these communities’ food sovereignty, that is, their right to determine their own food systems and those systems’ management on their own terms, free from …