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Drought Tolerance and Water Use of Cereal Crops: A Focus on Sorghum as a Food Security Crop in Sub‐Saharan Africa
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Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) faces twin challenges of water stress and food insecurity – challenges that are already pressing and are projected to grow. Sub‐Saharan Africa comprises 43 % arid and semi‐arid area, which is projected to increase due to climate change. Small‐scale, rainfed agriculture is the main livelihood source in arid and semi‐arid areas of SSA. Because rainfed agriculture constitutes more than 95 % of agricultural land use, water scarcity is a major limitation to production. Crop production, specifically staple cereal crop production, will have to adapt to water scarcity and improved water productivity (output per water input) to meet food requirements. We propose inclusion and promotion of drought‐tolerant cereal crops in arid and semi‐arid agro‐ecological zones of SSA where water scarcity is a major limitation to cereal production. Sorghum uniquely fits production in such regions, due to high and stable water‐use efficiency, drought and heat tolerance, high germplasm variability, comparative nutritional value and existing food value chain in SSA. However, sorghum is socio‐economically and geographically underutilized in parts of SSA. Sorghum inclusion and/or promotion in arid and semi‐arid areas of SSA, especially among subsistence farmers, will improve water productivity and food security.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hadebe, S. T., Modi, A. T., & Mabhaudhi, T.
- Venue
- Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2016-11-11
- Volume
- 203
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 177-191
- ISSN
- 0931-2250 (ISSN-L)
- 1439-037X
- OpenAlex
- W2551698534
- Cited by
- 359
- References
- 61
- FWCI
- 18.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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