Verdict: FMNR is an inexpensive way for farmers to make improvements with the resources they already have, increasing millet harvests from 430kg to 750kg a hectare, and saving money on fertilisers, with restored trees producing leaf litter (forming humus) and giving shade to livestock (for manure).
My breakfast would be porridge made with millet.
Sorghum and millet are climate-resilient cereals that are crucial staple foods in the rural Malian diet, providing three quarters of the total energy intake of mothers.
Sanogo has also been teaching women to cook sorghum and millet grains with protein-rich legumes like cowpea.
Like many victims, the wounds are such that he's supposed to restrict his diet to soft foods such as bananas, which are expensive, and Jean Paul can only afford maize and millet.
After the prayers and speeches, the party meal of rice, chicken, millet bread, green bananas and vegetables, along with several other dishes, was served.
Also, nutrition experts say malnutrition is often due not to lack of food, but to the under-use of local foods (such as buckwheat and millet) which are more nutritious than the white rice staple that forms the basis of most meals in the country.
Nor would it be altogether desirable for them to pump groundwater unless they could be enjoined to sow appropriate crops, such as pulses and millet, and water them wisely.
But if they ate rice, they often had to mix it with millet to make it go further.
Mr Dangeni and his wife have been able to spend more time tending their fields, so they have produced more spare maize and millet at a time when their expenditure on anti-malarial drugs is at an all-time low.
Research showing decreased yields of millet, groundnuts and cowpeas in Niger becomes a claim that crop yields are decreasing in the Sahel, the strip that separates the Sahara from the savannah in Africa, rather than that the yields of some crops are decreasing in some parts of the Sahel.
