Social-Ecological Diversity and Traditional Food Systems

Ranjay Kumar Singh, Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana, India Nancy J. Turner, School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada Victoria Reyes-Garcia, ICREA and Institut de Ciencia i Technologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Jules Pretty, Essex Sustainability Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, UK

1. The Food/Medicine/Poison Triangle: Implications for Traditional Ecological Knowledge Systems of Indigenous Peoples of British Columbia, Canada 2. Integration into the Market Economy and Dietary Change: An Empirical Study of Dietary Transition in the Amazon 3. The Loss of Local Livelihoods and Local Knowledge: Implications for Local Food Systems 4. The Seasonal Migration of Thai Berry Pickers in Finland: Non-wood Forest Products for Poverty Alleviation or Source of Imminent Conflict? 5. Sustainable Management of Natural Resources and Biocultural Diversity for Subsistence Livelihoods: A Cross Cultural Study 6. Status and Contribution of Non-cultivated Food Plants Used by Dawro People in Loma District, South Ethiopia 7. Biocultural Resources and Traditional Food Systems of Nyishi Tribe of Arunachal Pradesh (India): An Empirical Learning on the Role of Mythology and Folklore in Conservation 8. New Shoots, Old Roots - the Incorporation of Alien Weeds into Traditional Food Systems 9. Edible Fungi in Mesoamerican Lowlands: A Barely Studied Resource 10. Menu for Survival: Plants, Architecture, and Stories of the Nisga'a Oolichan Fishery 11. Salmon Food Webs: SAANICH First Nation Peoples' Intrinsic Interconnectedness to Salmon Fishing and Conservation on Southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada 12. Tsampa of Ladakh: Adaptation of a Traditional Food at Higher Altitude and Emergent Changes 13. Bioculturally Important Indigenous Fruit Tree Mahua (Madhuca spp.; Sapotaceae): It's' Role in Community-Based Adaptive Management