Millets and Other Potential Crops: Ensuring Climate Resilience and Nutritional Security [Paperback]

Deeply rooted in indigenous peoples culture and traditions, millets (also called nutricereals are ancestral crops high in nutritional value. As the global agrifood systems face challenges to feed an ever-growing global population, resilient cereals like millets provide an affordable and nutritious option and help guarantee food security.

This book presents the basic principles and practices of millets and other potential crops towards climate resilience and nutritional security. It discuses the role of millets in sustainable agriculture, the medicinal use of foxtail millet, exotic fruits in India, and climate-resilient fruit and vegetable crops.

The goal of this work is to promote the sustainable cultivation of millets, also under adverse and changing climatic conditions and improving their quality, highlighting their potential to provide new sustainable market opportunities for producers and consumers.

Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan or Bhutan)

Message (Prof. Pravat Kumar Roul)

Message (Dr. Dilip Kumar Dash)

Message (Dr. Somnath Roy Chowdhury)

Preface

About the Editors

1. International Year of Millets-Unleashing its Potential in Making a Sustainable World

2. Millets: Super Food for Nutrition Security and Livelihood Improvement

3. Climate Change and Millets: A Global Food Security for an Improving Livelihood

4. The Vital Role of Millets in Sustainable Agriculture: Ensuring Food Security and Enhancing Environmental Sustainability

5. Role of Minor Millets in the Context of Climate Change and Genomic Resources

6. Millets in Organic Agricultural System

7. Breeding for Genetic Improvement of Millets

8. Millets: A BiotechnlÓé