Small-scale farming in drylands: New models for resilient practices of millet and sorghum cultivation.

ABSTRACT: Finger millet, pearl millet and sorghum are amongst the most important drought-tolerant crops worldwide. They constitute primary staple crops in drylands, where their production is known to date back over 5000 years ago. Compared to other crops, millets and sorghum have received less attention until very recently, and their production has been progressively reduced in the last 50 years. Here, we present new models that focus on the ecological factors driving finger millet, pearl millet and sorghum traditional cultivation, with a global perspective. The interaction between environment and traditional agrosystems was investigated by Redundancy Analysis of published literature and tested against novel ethnographic data. Contrary to earlier beliefs, our models show that the total annual precip

SUBMITTER: Ruiz-Giralt A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9894398 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature