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1 paź 2021 · The eastern wave has pearl millet cultivation dating from at least 2000 BCE, deriving from the Tilemsi Valley, a remaining Saharan water channel at a time of increasing desiccation (Manning and Fuller, 2014). Millet cultivation spread south of the Niger river bend into the Douentza region shortly thereafter (MacDonald et al., 2017). The western ...
24 lis 2023 · Impact of climate change on millet production in Sahel region. Butt et al. estimated that without the adaptation of tolerant varieties, pearl millet grain yield would decrease by 6–12% in Mali under various climate change scenarios (Hadley Center Coupled Model and Coupled General Circulation Model).
Pearl millet (Cenchrus americanus, commonly known as the synonym Pennisetum glaucum) is the most widely grown type of millet. It has been grown in Africa and the Indian subcontinent since prehistoric times. The center of diversity, and suggested area of domestication, for the crop is in the Sahel zone of West Africa. [2] Recent archaeobotanical ...
At the desert edge, a nomadic food production system based upon the by-products of livestock meets a sedentary food system based upon the cultivation of the resilient grain of the region, millet. In the 19th century, slaves provided nomadic and merchant populations with a secure foothold within the zone of cultivation.
Millet is consumed daily by 50 million inhabitants of the Sahel region. Extremely resistant to drought and well adapted to poor soils, it remains the only crop that truly corresponds to the conditions of the environment and to traditional food habits in Africa.
23 mar 2012 · The Sahel is home to cowpeas, pigeon peas, groundnut, green grams and chick peas but millet and sorghum are the two most vital food crops of the Sahel. Millet is a group of annual grasses that are mainly found in arid or semi-arid regions in the world, normally found growing in places that barley and wheat are unable to thrive.
23 lip 2019 · Analyses of various databases show that the cultivation of sanio, a long-cycle millet, which had nearly disappeared from the Fatick region for nearly a quarter of a century, has once again...
