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Sorghum Overview
- Economically important were low/erratic rain & high temps
- Three domestication of it
- Striga parasitic weed
- low productivity, low digestibility
- USA, Nigeria, India
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Sorghum Gene Pool
- Bicolors- primitive and widely distributed
- Guineas- W. Africa
- Caudatums- C. Africa
- Durras- N & E Africa
- Kafirs- S Afica
- 1800s taken to Americas and Australia
- Developing short varieties, hybrids
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Sorghum food
- 1990 USA working on Food-grade for non-gluten
- Want white pericarp
- Larger rounder seeds
- Ferment it
- stiff porridge
- Enjera- bitter bread
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Pearl Millet Overview
- Good nutrition/digestibility but poor yeild
- Grow with cowpea- only fert
- India, Nigeria, Niger
- Can be infested with striga
- Protogynous- female parts first then male to encourage out crossing
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Pearl Millet food
- Porridges and anmial feed
- To- like fofo
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Cowpea
- Topical Legume
- Most important pulse
- Very tolerant
- Intercropping (indeterminate)
- Determinate for monoculture
- Needs to be cooked
- Hard to store, PICS project
- Nigeria, Niger, Burkina Faso
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Yams
- Stem tuber
- High in carbs and low in fat
- Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana
- Has to be cooked first (boil then pound)
- Easy storage
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Oil Palm
- 30% of world editable oil
- Used for cooking/ frying
- Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria
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Coffee
- Key cash crop, very valuable
- Hand harvested, remove pulp, ferment, wash, dry, and roast
- Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia
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Fair trade coffee
- • Fair labor conditions including freedom of
- association, safe conditions, and fair wages.
- • Direct trade with producer group
- cooperatives.
- • Democratic organizations where farmers can
- decide how to invest revenues.
- • Community development in projects including
- education and healthcare.
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Coffee History
- Started in East africa
- 1000 BC
- Mid east 1400
- Europe 1600
- Starbucks 1971
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