Pearl Millet : A Resilient Cereal Crop for Food, Nutrition, and Climate Security - Ramasamy Perumal

Pearl Millet

A Resilient Cereal Crop for Food, Nutrition, and Climate Security

By: Ramasamy Perumal, P. V. Vara Prasad, Tara Satyavathi, Mahalingam Govindaraj, Abdou Tenkouano

Hardcover | 18 November 2024 | Edition Number 1

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Discover, in this age of climate change, the potential impact of pearl millet—considered a viable alternative cereal crop for semi-arid and hot areas

Pearl millet, a warm-season, dryland cereal crop, already serves as a staple food for over 90 million people in Africa and Asia. Its nutritional superiority relative to other cereal crops, such as rice, wheat, maize, and sorghum, and its hardiness and adaptability to harsh environments and poor soils make it a potentially life-saving resource for poor populations and/or areas hit by damaging climatic conditions. With climate change placing ever-greater strain on global agrifood systems, pearl millet has never been a more important crop in the fight against poverty, hunger and malnutrition.

Pearl Millet offers a timely and thorough introduction to this vital grain, its growth, development, stress tolerance, properties, and potential benefits. Coming on the heels of a 2023 United Nations declaration of the “International Year of Millets,” it is a crucial intervention in an essential humanitarian project. It is the first comprehensive book on the subject to appear in print.

Pearl Millet readers will also find:

  • Analysis of a potential lead crop for climate-change-affected areas
  • Detailed coverage of all pearl millet's unique features, such as inherent genetic diversity, gluten free applications, and suitability for double cropping
  • An author team with vast research and crop development experience

Pearl Millet is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, certified and practicing professionals, as well as industry or academic researchers.

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