Abstracts

• Published in: Ressources génétiques des mils en Afrique de l'Ouest : diversité, conservation et valorisation pp. 177 - 185
• Main Authors: Allinne, Clémentine, Amoukou, Adamou I., Balma, Didier, Bani, Jibril, Banoin, Maxime, Bazile, Didier, Beidari, Yakouba, Bezançon, Gilles, Brocke, Kirsten vom, Cayeux, Sonia, Christinck, Anja, Couturon, Emmanuel, Dedieu, Valérie, Dossou, Bernadette, Gamatché, Ibrahim, Geiger, Hartwig H., Guengant, Jean-Pierre, Hamidou, Abdoulaye, Hoffmann, Volker, Issaka Magha, Mahamadou, Jarvis, Devra, Kairou, Ali, Kouressy, Mamoutou, Luxereau, Anne, Mariac, Cédric, Moussa, Djibo, Niangado, Oumar, Omanya, Gospel, Ouédraogo, Mahamadi, Ouendeba, Botorou, Pham, Jean-Louis, Presterl, Thomas, Robert, Thierry, Sadou, Mahamane, Sanogo, Moussa D., Sarr, Aboubakry, Sawadogo, Mahamadou, Seydou, Moumouni, Seyni, Ousmane, Siaka Sogoba, Boureima, Tidjani, Moussa, Trouche, Gilles, Vaksmann, Michel, Weltzien, Eva, Zangré, Roger G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IRD Éditions 23.10.2013
• ISBN: 9782709915441; 2709915448

J.-P. Guengant and M. Banoin: “Pearl millet, demography and food security in Niger” Millet is the cereal best adapted to arid and semi-arid zones. It still constitutes, along with sorghum, the staple food of the diet of Sahelian populations, for whom it remains an uncontested plant of civilisation. However, with a demographic growth of over 3 percent a year, most Sahelian populations are today in a state of chronic food shortage. This is the case in Niger, where the trend in national cereal p...