Lost Crops of Africa: GrainsNational Research Council, Policy And Global Affairs, Board on Science and Technology for International Development, Office Of International Affairs DIANE Publishing, 1999 - 383 pages Africa has more native cereals than any other continent, a legacy that has largely been bypassed in modern times. This book draws attention to traditional African cereals & their potential for expanding & diversifying African & world food supplies. A number of grains -- including African rice, finger millet, fonio, pearl millet, sorghum, tef, & other cultivated & wild grains -- are discussed with attention paid to their uses, nutrition agronomy, harvesting, & prospects & limitations for use. Includes information on species, distribution, cultivated varieties, & environmental requirements. Black & white photos & drawings. |
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Page 241 - Damania at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Aleppo.
Page 342 - Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (University of London), Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey TW20 OEX...
Page 358 - International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), PO Box 5466. Aleppo, Syria (emmer) Frances Cook.
Page 319 - The miracle of the Green Revolution may have arrived, but, for the most part, the poor farmer has not been able to participate in it. He simply cannot afford to pay for the irrigation, the pesticide, the fertilizer, or perhaps even for the land itself, on which his title may be vulnerable and his tenancy uncertain.
Page 195 - Yet for more than a third of the world's people, the real energy crisis is a daily scramble to find the wood they need to cook dinner.
Page 354 - Department of Agronomy and Range Science, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA E.
Page 355 - Martin L. Price, Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization (ECHO). 17430 Durrance Road. North Fort Myers. Florida 33917, USA (fuel and specialty sorghums) Alan Putnam.
Page 319 - That may be what life on the land ought to be, but, for hundreds of millions of these subsistence farmers, life is neither satisfying nor decent. Hunger and malnutrition menace their families. Illiteracy forecloses their futures. Disease and death visit their villages too often, stay too long, and return too soon.
Page 120 - Peru, the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in India...
Page 357 - West, Department of Human Nutrition, Wageningen Agricultural University, PO Box 8129, Wageningen 6700 EV, The Netherlands.