Food, Technology and Culture in Africa
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Food, Technology and Culture in Africa

  1. 242 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Food, Technology and Culture in Africa

About this book

This book is a multidisciplinary exposition of how scholars from various disciplines research food. The chapters unravel the crosscutting themes in the role of food in everyday realities of African societies. Food remains indispensable to humanity for a good healthy and quality life but accessibility is shrouded by poor quality food and food fraud thereby making the available food unsafe for consumption by the Nigerian citizens, and of course by people around the world. The underlying causes of this have largely been attributed to poverty and acquisitive economic gains, and to some extent poor food handling by consumers. In Nigeria, the state of poverty is so severe that the largest proportion of the citizens' daily and/or monthly income goes on food, which is barely enough to access quality and nutritional food. Consequently, majority of the citizens seek and take up poor quality food that might come their way. In the light of drive for unsafe food, the food fraudsters had capitalised on the poor Nigerians to make illegally adulterated and poor quality food available at cheaper prices. This situation has not only endangered the food distribution system and quality of consumed nutrition in Nigeria, but as equally put the health status of Nigerians at risk through long-term exposure and build-up of chronically toxic contaminants in the body.

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Yes, you can access Food, Technology and Culture in Africa by A. Ogunlade, M. Adeleke, A. Ogunlade,M. Adeleke in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Agricultural Public Policy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Dedication
  5. Preface
  6. Contents
  7. List of Tables
  8. List of Figures
  9. List of Plates
  10. List of Abbreviation
  11. CHAPTER ONE - Enabling Food Policy for Attainment of Safe Food Production and Healthy Living in Nigeria
  12. Chapter Two - Packaging and the Nigerian Food Industry: Challenges and Opportunities
  13. Chapter Three - Cultural and Improved Ways of Extracting Vegetable Oils from Oleaginous Biomaterials: A Review
  14. Chapter Four - Chocolate: A Modern Atlantic History
  15. Chapter Five - Twin Insurgencies and Food Insecurity in Northern Nigeria
  16. Chapter Six - AN AXIAL FLOW RICE THRESHER-CLEANER AND OPTIMISATION OF OPERATIONAL FACTORS IN BENIN REPUBLIC
  17. Chapter Seven - Les populations vulnérables et la faim à l’épreuve de la pandémie de covid-19
  18. BIBLIOGRAPHIE
  19. Epilogue
  20. Index
  21. Back cover