Engendering Finger Millet-Based Value Chains for Livelihood and Nutritional Security of Women in Agriculture

Agriculture systems worldwide need to adopt sustainable cropping solutions to deal with existing issues of malnutrition, food insecurity, resource depletion and lifestyle health issues. Millets have special nutritive and agronomic properties. Millets offer one such solution as they have nutritional, environmental, and economic superiority over the most common staple grains in India. The present study deals with women empowerment in agriculture that reflects increased women's decision-making authority related to agricultural resources, management and production, and income, which will enhance the ability of women farmers to strengthen their economic status. The novelty of this study focuses to address challenges in sustainable production and marketing in millets promotion that impede inclusive growth of women farmers. The findings of this study advocate having an integrated approach to enhance millet value chain efficiencies to develop millet promotion, considering economic, environmental, and health sustainability through women empowerment.

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Millet Farming and Tribal Livelihood

Sahoo,

Rana,

Samantray

2023

Practice, Progress, and Proficiency in Sustainability

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Millet is one of the oldest cultivated crops which provide food for human and animal consumption, along with its nutritional and health benefits. It is also a pro-environment crop which can grow and sustain with extreme environmental conditions; it has low water requirements and less requirements of soil fertility, nutrients, and moisture. Hence, to increase production, boost consumption, improve processing mechanisms, and improve marketing chain of millet Government of Odisha has introduced a flagship programme called Odisha Millet Mission, to revive and promote millet farming. With these backdrops, this chapter intended to examine the role of Odisha Millet Mission to improve tribal livelihood. This study found that the OMM has remarkable contribution for reviving and encouraging the production, consumption and processing of millet. This is also helpful for improving the employment and livelihood among the tribal in the Koraput district. But the government also needs to endure the tribal people reading the benefits of such potential programmes to further enhance the livelihood opportunities.

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Engendering Finger Millet-Based Value Chains for Livelihood and Nutritional Security of Women in Agriculture

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