Dear colleagues,

We are delighted to invite you to join the Millets Community of Practice (CoP)!

The Millets CoP provides a platform for farmers’ organizations, cooperatives, civil society organizations, research centres, NGOs, policymakers, decision-makers and the private sector working in millet value chain with the common goal of identifying opportunities and gaps to promote a shift towards sustainable food systems.

This community exchanges information and ideas on millets production and processing best practices, projects, lessons learned, initiatives, programmes, public policies, research and development and innovation among others. It is an open platform, with moderated management.

The community serves to:

• Share and co-create knowledge among stakeholders, with a particular focus on successful agricultural technologies and innovations, best practices and case studies on millets (in areas such as crop production, post-harvest and marketing, natural resource management, nutrition and food security, capacity development, Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge and traditions, climate change and disaster risk reduction);

• Systematize practices and technologies to make them available to a wider audience as a legacy of the International Year of Millets;
• Identify gaps in knowledge and support research community for data collection; 
• Foster knowledge and information dissemination for concrete actions and policy-making in support of millets production and processing services;
• Encourage sharing and collaboration between practitioners.
• Disseminate information on events and other opportunities related to millet value chain;
• Provide support to deal with shared challenges in millet value chain;
• Support collective efforts to influence relevant policy areas; and,
• Promote the consumption of millets and integrating millets in diversified and healthy diets.

To join the community, please register at the following link: https://dgroups.org/fao/millets.  

Kind regards,

Secretariat of the International Year of Millets 2023

Plant Production and Protection Division (NSP)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Address: Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy