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Sustainable conservation and utilization of genetic resources of two underutilized crops - finger millet and foxtail millet - to enhance productivity, nutrition and income in Africa and Asia
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| Coordinating organisation: | International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics |
| Description: | The goal is to enhance rural livelihoods and household food and nutritional security in the finger millet and foxtail millet growing areas of Africa and South Asia through cultivation of adapted, higher-yielding and stable cultivars of two underutilized crops - finger millet and foxtail millet.To achieve this goal, the project will assist NARS in the target countries to more effectively utilize genetic diversity of locally adapted finger millet germplasm in their breeding programs. |
| Budget (in &euro): | 1000000 |
| Start: | 2008-01-01 |
| End: | 2010-12-30 |
| Species: | millet |
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| ARD-theme: | plant production |
| Target country: | India Kenya Tanzania Uganda |
| Commodity: | plant products (agroforest) |
| Activity: | funding |
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| Donor organisations: | 1 |
| Participating organisations: | 5 |
| Programmes funding: | 1 |
| Last editing: | 2008-03-25 11:49:26 |