Growing the list of cropping staples to fuel the world

Mike Foley
Updated June 13 2019 - 12:12pm, first published August 21 2018 - 4:30am
ICRISAT assistant director general Joanna Kane-Potaka with a collection of Smart Foods made of sorghum and millet at the Crawford Fund annual conference in Parliament House, Canberra.
ICRISAT assistant director general Joanna Kane-Potaka with a collection of Smart Foods made of sorghum and millet at the Crawford Fund annual conference in Parliament House, Canberra.

Over the past 50 years rice, wheat and maize helped to end a growing hunger crisis in many countries. But new challenges loom on the nutritional, economic and climate front and experts are working to add to the list of global staples.

Mike Foley

Mike Foley

National rural reporter

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