Food Tank on millets

There are various food and ag focused US-based food and agriculture policy organizations. One prominent one - Food Tank - has on its website - https://foodtank.com/ - various articles on or relating to millets. Most of these are a few years old, but still of interest. For example: MILLET(S) * "Millets and Sorghum: Forgotten Foods for the Future," by Madelyn Vital (April 2018) https://foodtank.com/news/2018/04/icrisat-millets-sorghum-forgotten-foods-fu... Nice overview article including quotes from friend of NAMA, Joanna Kane-Potaka, who was then with ICRISAT as Director of Strategic Marketing and Communication. For lists of articles tagged "millet" or "millets" (there is some overlap of the two), see: - "millet" (9 articles, 2018-2023) https://foodtank.com/news/tag/millet/ - "millets" (12 articles, 2018-2023) https://foodtank.com/news/tag/millets/ SORGHUM * "Op-Ed | Flour Power: The Strength and Sustainability of Sorghum," by Angela Garbacz (Nov. 2023) https://foodtank.com/news/2023/11/op-ed-flour-power-the-strength-and-sustain... A pastry shop owner in Nebraska who uses sorghum flour writes of its qualities and the importance of crop diversity and cover crops. She sees a role for chefsto "steer the conversation, as well as farmers' practices, toward regenerative agriculture..." For a list of 11 articles tagged sorghum (2017-2023), see https://foodtank.com/news/tag/sorghum/ FONIO * "The Small Seed Changing West Africa," Food Tank (April 2018) https://foodtank.com/news/2018/04/philip-teverow-fonion-seed-africa/ This is an interview by Katherine Walla of Philip Teverow, co-founder of Yolélé (with Pierre Thiam). Philip Teverow gives some background on fonio, the founding of Yolélé, and the considerations that went into developing the business. Also some discussion of future considerations (still valid today). I'd read this article in tandem with James Courtright's feature article, "The Fonio Revival" (Roads & Kingdoms / Slate Magazine, 26 Nov. 2017), which sheds light on what was happening with fonio in West Africa that prepared the way for Yolélé and other exporters of fonio. https://roadsandkingdoms.com/2017/the-fonio-revival/ Back to Food Tank, for a list of 5 pieces tagged fonio (2014-2023), see https://foodtank.com/news/tag/fonio/ TEFF * "Opinion | Can a 200 Year Old Farm Pivot from Cash Crops to Ancient Grains?" by Claire Smith (April 2019) https://foodtank.com/news/2019/04/opinion-can-a-200-year-old-farm-pivot-from... As has been mentioned on this list previously, Claire is the founder of Teffola, and her family farm in Michigan produces teff, largely for Teffola products. This article is her story about that business. (This is the only item tagged teff on the Food Tank site) Claire's article is apparently the only one tagged "teff," but a Google advanced search turned up another, general, article about teff on the Food Tank site: * "Indigenous Crop: Teff- Ancient Crop with Modern Potential," by Brett Aronson (Feb. 2014) https://foodtank.com/news/2014/02/indigenous-crop-ancient-crop-with-modern-p... For more background on Food Tank, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Tank Don Osborn, PhD (East Lansing, MI, US) North American Millets Alliance
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Don Osborn