加强小米经济：来自南印度案例研究的教训

IF 5.6 1区农林科学 Q1 FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Food Security Pub Date : 2025-01-15 DOI:10.1007/s12571-024-01511-7

D. J. Nithya, E. D. I. Oliver King, Madhura Swaminathan, P. Yuvaraj

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摘要

小米以其营养价值而闻名：它们富含蛋白质、膳食纤维、微量营养素和抗氧化剂。小米也是抗旱作物，可以承受极端温度，在土壤贫瘠的半干旱地区种植。在印度，种植小米的面积几十年来一直在下降，小米的产量不到2000万吨，而谷物的产量超过2亿吨。从20世纪90年代末开始，总部设在印度南部的斯瓦米纳坦研究基金会（MSSRF）在泰米尔纳德邦纳玛卡尔地区的科利山区开始了一系列干预措施，以保护小米的生物多样性，扩大小米的生产和消费。本文首先描述了基本干预措施以及从这些干预措施到产出、结果和影响的影响途径。然后，它试图根据过去25年基层活动收集的不同类型的证据，为每一种影响途径提供证据。文章认为，扭转谷子种植下降的趋势是可行的。

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Strengthening the millet economy: lessons from a South Indian case study

Millets are known for their nutritive value: they are high in protein, dietary fibre, micronutrients and antioxidants. Millets are also drought-resistant crops that can withstand extreme temperatures and be grown in semi-arid regions with poor soils. In India, the area sown to millets has declined for decades and production of millets is less than 20 million tonnes as compared to over 200 million tonnes of cereals. From the late 1990s, the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), based in south India, began a set of interventions in the Kolli hills block, Namakkal district, Tamil Nadu, to conserve millet biodiversity and expand the production and consumption of millets. This paper begins by describing the basic interventions and the impact pathways from these interventions to outputs, outcomes and impact. It then attempts to provide evidence for each of the impact pathways drawing on different types of evidence gathered over the last 25 years of grassroots activities. The paper argues that reversing the decline in millet cultivation is feasible.

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Food Security FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY-

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14.00

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6.00%

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Food Security is a wide audience, interdisciplinary, international journal dedicated to the procurement, access (economic and physical), and quality of food, in all its dimensions. Scales range from the individual to communities, and to the world food system. We strive to publish high-quality scientific articles, where quality includes, but is not limited to, the quality and clarity of text, and the validity of methods and approaches. Food Security is the initiative of a distinguished international group of scientists from different disciplines who hold a deep concern for the challenge of global food security, together with a vision of the power of shared knowledge as a means of meeting that challenge. To address the challenge of global food security, the journal seeks to address the constraints - physical, biological and socio-economic - which not only limit food production but also the ability of people to access a healthy diet. From this perspective, the journal covers the following areas: Global food needs: the mismatch between population and the ability to provide adequate nutrition Global food potential and global food production Natural constraints to satisfying global food needs: § Climate, climate variability, and climate change § Desertification and flooding § Natural disasters § Soils, soil quality and threats to soils, edaphic and other abiotic constraints to production § Biotic constraints to production, pathogens, pests, and weeds in their effects on sustainable production The sociological contexts of food production, access, quality, and consumption. Nutrition, food quality and food safety. Socio-political factors that impinge on the ability to satisfy global food needs: § Land, agricultural and food policy § International relations and trade § Access to food § Financial policy § Wars and ethnic unrest Research policies and priorities to ensure food security in its various dimensions.