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creators_name: Orr, A
creators_name: Schipmann-Schwarze, C
creators_name: Gierend, A
creators_name: Nedumaran, S
creators_name: Mwema, C
creators_name: Muange, E
creators_name: Manyasa, E
creators_name: Ojulong, H
icrisatcreators_name: Orr, A
icrisatcreators_name: Gierend, A
icrisatcreators_name: Nedumaran, S
icrisatcreators_name: Manyasa, E
icrisatcreators_name: Ojulong, H
affiliation: ICRISAT (Nairobi)
affiliation: ICRISAT (Patancheru)
affiliation: Machakos University, Kenya
affiliation: WorldFish, Zambia
affiliation: University of Kassel, Germany
country: Kenya
country: India
country: Zambia
country: Germany
title: Why invest in Research & Development for sorghum and millets? The business case for East and Southern Africa
ispublished: pub
subjects: S1.5
subjects: s1.4
subjects: s31
subjects: s400001
subjects: s4010
divisions: CRPS5
divisions: CRPS4
crps: CG1
full_text_status: public
keywords: Sorghum, Millets, Africa, Commercialization
note: This work was undertaken as part of the CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC) led by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT). Funding support for this study was from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Cereals. The views expressed here are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the organisations with which they are affiliated. The authors are grateful to the editor and an anonymous reviewer for helpful comments.
abstract: This article synthesizes recent research by ICRISAT and its partners to analyse the business case for sorghum and
millets in ESA and the wider strategy of commercialization on which this is based. The business case is stronger
for sorghum because of its greater impact on poverty and food security, but millets are better suited to a strategy
of commercialization. Commercial demand for millets is primarily driven by specialty markets for flour while
that for sorghum is limited to beer. Demand for improved varieties is driven primarily by the need for early –
maturity that shortens the hungry period. Future growth in production depends on increased opportunities for
inter-regional trade.
date: 2020-11
date_type: published
publication: Global Food Security (TSI)
volume: 26
publisher: Elsevier
pagerange: 1-11
id_number: doi:10.1016/j.gfs.2020.100458
refereed: TRUE
issn: 2211-9124
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2020.100458
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citation:   Orr, A and Schipmann-Schwarze, C and Gierend, A and Nedumaran, S and Mwema, C and Muange, E and Manyasa, E and Ojulong, H  (2020) Why invest in Research & Development for sorghum and millets? The business case for East and Southern Africa.  Global Food Security (TSI), 26.  pp. 1-11.  ISSN 2211-9124     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/11713/1/Why%20invest%20in%20reserach-%20Alastair%202020.pdf