
Millets and Other Potential Crops
Ensuring Climate Resilience and Nutritional Security
- 372 pages
- English
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Millets and Other Potential Crops
Ensuring Climate Resilience and Nutritional Security
About this book
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)
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Message
- Message
- Message
- Contents
- 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 Biotechnological Perspective
- 9 Finger Millet: A Sustainable Approach for Nutritional Security and its Biofortification
- 10 Foxtail Millet: Origin, Production, Nutritional Benefits and Medicinal Use
- 11 Kodo Millet (Paspalum scrobiculatum) - A Nutri-rich Millet Crop: Nutritional Composition, Health Benefits and Food Product Developments
- 12 Millets: Its Diseases and Management
- 13 Economic Importance of Major Millet Pests and their Management Techniques
- 14 Insect Pests of Major Millets and Integrated Strategies for their Management
- 15 Recent Approaches for Management of Insect Disease Problems in Pearl Millet
- 16 Exotic Fruits in India: Production, Nutritional Benefits and Medicinal Properties
- 17 Flourishing the Climate Resilient Fruit Crops to Ensure Global Food and Nutritional Security
- 18 Vegetables: A Food to Ensure Economic and Dietary Security
- 19 Bioactive Compounds in Jamun (Syzygium cumini L.) Ensuring Nutritional Security
- 20 Meet the Incredible, the Unsung Heroes of Crops in Alleviating Iron Deficiency Anemia
- 21 Importance of Millets for Enhancement of Calcium Content and Thickness in Eggshell of Granivorous Birds
- 22 Climate Change Resilient through Modern Farming in Vegetable Cultivation