Millions living in marginal, difficult
areas of Africa’s Sahel depend upon millet and
sorghum as their staple diet and as feed and fodder
for their livestock. <<
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World Food Day
To help develop new ways of protecting
these 'orphan crops' against disease, pests and abiotic
stress, and in improving their nutritional quality the
Foundation sponsored two workshops, one at the University
of Arizona-Tucson, the other at Biosciences for east
Central Africa "BecA" in Nairobi, bringing together
geneticists, bioinformatic specialists and plant breeders
from both private and public sectors, to identify how
knowledge of the cereal genomes can be used to improve
millet and sorghum.
The Cereal Annotation & Improvement Workshops
These workshops were featured in an
CNBC television special "The Business of Development"
broadcast in NAFTA and in Europe September 2005.
2005: Nairobi, Kenya
- African Sorghum
& Millet Annotation and
Improvement
Consortium Report [PDF 199KB]
2004: Tucson, Arizona - Annotation
Workshop for Sorghum and Millet
in
Africa Report [PDF 64KB]
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