Barnyard millet tart, millet doughnuts and sugar-free ‘caramel’ sweets. These are just some dishes on the menu at Yumiko...
In Boiram village, in Gambia’s Central River Region, there is hardly a family that doesn’t grow millets. Here, at the heart...
Mamoutou Traoré takes pride in coming from a long line of millet producers in Mali’s semi-arid Koulikoro region. Although millets are...
As the sun rises over Asinge Village in western Kenya, Josephine Okolodi checks on her fields of finger millet with a mix of worry...
Speak to an older farmer in Senegal and chances are they’ll vividly remember the 1970s. Recurring droughts that decimated...
Chef Mokgadi Itsweng from South Africa knows that her work is about more than just cooking food – it’s also about...
Watching Ahmet Alper Güner inspect the lush foxtail millet growing in his fields on the edge of Denizli, in western Türkiye,...
Allow us to introduce you to your new favourite cooking staple”, the South Tyrolean company Dr Schär, which produces food for special...
For Naima Dhore, millets bring up memories. She fondly remembers eating them for breakfast as a child in...
If one were to fly from the northernmost point of Chad down to its southern border with the Central African Republic, the country’s...
On a recent sunny morning, some 30 locals gathered in a shed in Narrabri, on the east coast of Australia, to watch bushels of native...
The first time Thaís Barbosa dos Santos saw millets, it was on the shelf of a store that sold animal feed. She was still a child then,...
Sitting on the front porch of her home, Anjamma Nadimidoddi proudly displays her seed collection of 80 rainfed crops – most of them...
Digging a spade into the soil around Xinglongwa, some 600 km northeast of Beijing, can bring up a lot of history. Today, it’s a bustling...
Mariam Kouanda has been producing millets since her early childhood. Not a rainy season has passed where she did not grow, she...
When he started his own farm more than three decades ago, Patrick Mutepeya didn’t think twice about growing maize. Raised in rural...
