Collaborative Project to Investigate Consumer Preferences for Selected Sorghum and Millet Products in the SADCC Region of Africa

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 sciences › health sciences › nutrition
• agricultural sciences › agriculture, forestry, and fisheries › agriculture › grains and oilseeds › cereals

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)

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Call for proposal

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Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

Natural Resources Institute

Address

Central Avenue Chatham Maritime
ME4 4TB Chatham
United Kingdom

Participants (4)

Botswana Technology Centre

Botswana

Address

008,private Bag
Kanye

Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD)

France

Address

2477 Avenue Du Val De Montferrand
34032 Montpellier

Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical

Portugal

Address

9-10,travessa Conde Da Ponte
1300 Lisboa

Sokoine University of Agriculture

Tanzania

Address

Morogoro