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J.-P. Guengant and M. Banoin: “Pearl millet, demography and food security in Niger” Millet is the cereal best adapted to arid and semi-arid zones. It still constitutes, along with sorghum, the staple food of the diet of Sahelian populations, for whom it remains an uncontested plant of civilisation....
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Veröffentlicht in: | Ressources génétiques des mils en Afrique de l'Ouest : diversité, conservation et valorisation conservation et valorisation, 2013-10, p.177-185 |
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Zusammenfassung: | J.-P. Guengant and M. Banoin: “Pearl millet, demography and food security in Niger” Millet is the cereal best adapted to arid and semi-arid zones. It still constitutes, along with sorghum, the staple food of the diet of Sahelian populations, for whom it remains an uncontested plant of civilisation. However, with a demographic growth of over 3 percent a year, most Sahelian populations are today in a state of chronic food shortage. This is the case in Niger, where the trend in national cereal p... |
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