Finger millet (unrelated to pearl millet) attracts a strong market as porridge in urban areas in Eastern Africa. Smallholder farmers with moderate access to water can earn high income from this crop.
The HOPE project, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, places great emphasis on training, communications and outreach to achieve impacts that benefit poor farm families in Africa and Asia.
Millet is the only cereal crop that is tough enough to reliably grow and produce food grain in the drought and heat-prone margins of the great deserts of Africa such as the Sahel and Kalahari. The crop is a crucial resource for human survival in these …
Sorghum is the staple cereal crop consumed by the poor in Africa in areas that are moderately dry and lack irrigation (depend solely on rainfall), such as in the savannas that transition between the deserts (Sahel and Kalahari) and the wetter areas.
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