Objective To enhance food security in Africa through promotion of drought resistant crops such as sorghum and the millets. Specific objectives to be achieved by this proposal: 1. To find and characterise the preferences between the cereals for different groups of consumers in Africa. 2. To identify key constraints to the use of sorghum and millets for different groups of consumers, including ethnic, rural and urban groups. 3. To identify sorghum varieties most suitable to meet the technological requirements and organoleptic preferences of users. 4. To improve physico-chemical and functional characteristics of milled products from sorghum and the millets. 5. Based on the above, to develop and promote these grains by finding new opportunities for their use. Commercial linkages will be identified for this and new technologies will be developed and promoted. 6. Produce an action plan for use throughout the SADCC region, designed to promote consumption of sorghum and millets. Fields of science medical and health scienceshealth sciencesnutritionagricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturegrains and oilseedscereals Programme(s) FP3-STD 3 - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of the life sciences and technologies for developing countries, 1990-1994 Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator Natural Resources Institute Address Central avenue chatham maritime ME4 4TB Chatham United Kingdom See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Botswana Technology Centre Botswana EU contribution € 0,00 Address 008,private bag Kanye See on map Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD) France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 2477 avenue du val de montferrand 34032 Montpellier See on map Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical Portugal EU contribution € 0,00 Address 9-10,travessa conde da ponte 1300 Lisboa See on map Sokoine University of Agriculture Tanzania EU contribution € 0,00 Address Morogoro See on map
