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Doing Veganism and Masculinity in Everyday Interactions: Men’s Strategies and Dilemmas in Communicating Veganism
This chapter highlights the challenges that vegans face in speciesist societies and the communicational effort required of them to navigate socially...
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Women’s Participation in Livestock Raising—Evidence from NSSO Employment and Unemployment Surveys 1993–94 to 2011–12
Given the background of insufficient literature on women’s participation in livestock raising since the 1990s, this chapter analyses rural women’s...
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Impacts of Consumption and the Role of Business
Dominant unsustainable consumption patterns in developed countries have led to increasing climate and biodiversity issues. Through consumption-based...
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Transformation of Agricultural Management in Japan Under Globalization Pressure: A Focus on Product Differentiation Strategy
This chapter analyzes the unique characteristics of the management strategy of Japan’s agricultural sector under globalization pressure since the...
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Chasing the Cure at Cragmor Sanatorium: The Archaeology of a Tuberculosis Sanatorium
Tuberculosis (TB), a leading cause of death from the 18th century through the early 20th, was often treated in specialized facilities called...
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Agri-food tech’s building block: narrating protein, agnostic of source, in the face of crisis
Inventive producers in Silicon Valley and other innovations sectors are going beyond the simulated animal products of plant-based proteins and...
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Spatial analysis of food and nutrition security in Pakistan: a holistic pathway towards zero hunger policies
Food and nutrition security is a foremost element of sustainable development policies. Food and nutrition security is critical to the development of...
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Livestock Contribution to Food and Nutrition Security in Nepal
Livestock products are a vital source for achieving food and nutrition security for growing human population in Nepal. Presently, the livestock...
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Home on the Range: Late Neolithic Architecture and Subsistence in Jordan’s Black Desert
Architecture during the seventh and sixth millennia BCE reflects some distinctive differences between buildings on the slopes of mesas in the Wadi...
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The Critical and Mature Consumer
Consumers have power, they decide on products, companies, shop** routes, and their personal lifestyle. The individual purchasing decision for or...
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Introduction: Men, Masculinities, and the Consumption of Nonhuman Animals in the Anthropocene
This chapter lays out the conceptual basis for the book, drawing on theoretical and empirical work primarily in critical animal studies, vegan...
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‘Men of the Soil’: Basotho Farmers in Southern Rhodesia, 1890–1950s
This chapter examines how Basotho migrants from South Africa established livelihoods based on freehold land ownership and agriculture in Southern...
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Perceptions of Healthy and Unhealthy Food among People with Migrant Backgrounds in Canada: The Case of Toronto
The increasing global population has tremendously impacted food availability and distribution. This has necessitated maximising food production to...
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The Politics and Policies of Food
Across the US, people face food insecurityfood insecurity every day because they do not know where or when they will get their next meal. Compounding...
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The Mediterranean and MIND Dietary Patterns: Associations with Cognition and Psychological Distress Among Latinos
Background: Latinos experience a disproportionate burden of chronic disease (e.g., diabetes, obesity, depression), which increases their risk for...
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Culinary trails in popularizing ethnic cuisines
The aim of the article is to advance knowledge regarding the significant role played by culinary trail projects in promoting foods from ethnic groups...
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Indian Traditional Foods and Diets: Combining Traditional Wisdom with Modern Science of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods
Indian traditional foods emphasize not only on providing the energy needs of the body but also aim to improve the overall health and prevent diseases...
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Food, Farming and Rural Relationships with the Land
Over the past fifty years agriculture, land use and food systems have dramatically altered on a global scale. Industrial scale agricultural systems...
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A Heritage Without Boundaries: Nature-Culture Synergies in and around Norwegian Protected Landscapes
We address the question of nature-culture synergies in protected mountain landscapes with a specific focus on the Norwegian National Park of...
