ICRISAT Energy-dense foods made from millets, sorghum and pulses are being provided to tribal communities in parts of India’s Telangana state to combat malnutrition. ICRISAT launched the diet diversification project, Giri Poshana, in collaboration with governments of...
05 Apr 2019 reliefweb Paving the way for development of a reliable seed distribution model, a nationwide program has helped transform livelihoods of over 450 farm households The central problem facing climate-smart crops such as sorghum, millets and pigeonpea is how...
8-Apr-2019 EurekALERT! Sorghum, a cereal used to feed livestock and make alcohol has been damaged over the last 6000 years by humans The damage to genes and reduced varieties available of sorghum are not a consequence of domestication but because of specific...
8 April 2019 nature MIDDLE EAST Today’s food crops are not as genetically diverse as their wild ancestors. This is often linked to a ‘domestication bottleneck’: a model that describes a drastic reduction in genetic diversity during the early stages of domestication,...
2 April 2019 IOPSCIENCE Abstract In the tropics, extreme weather associated with global climate teleconnections can have an outsized impact on food security. In Ethiopia, the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is frequently linked to drought-induced food insecurity....
