Millets - How to unlock their potentials to address nutritional, agricultural, and climate challenges

Millets are expected to play a major role in global food security and hunger alleviation due to their high nutritional value and wide adaptability to the agro-ecological environment.

At the same time, millet has attracted little attention in agronomy and breeding research, thus its potentials have remained largely untapped. It is urgent to undertake research and international collaboration on millet as well as other underutilized crops to take advantage of their nutritional values and resilience to climate change.

These seminars provide a forum for scientists engaged in millet research abroad and in Japan to discuss the potentials of millet research in addressing global climate and nutrition challenges.