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Mill for finger millet (photo by Ashutosh Kumar, 2024).

Millets: Ancient Grains, Global Policies, Local Lifeworlds - Preliminary conclusions (6/6)

Date:21 December 2024
Author:Peter Berger, René Cappers, Sonja Filatova, Roland Hardenberg, Ashutosh Kumar and Nidhi Trivedi

After intensive ethnographic and archaeobotanical research as part of our research project, we can identify some trends in the cereal crops of Odisha, India. First of all, it is clear that the new policies of the state, implemented by various governmental...

The infructescence of finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.), reminiscent of the shape of fingers (Copyright photo: RUG/GIA; Photographer: D. Fennema).

Millets: Ancient Grains, Global Policies, Local Lifeworlds - The deep-history of millets in Odisha (5/6)

Date:20 December 2024
Author:Peter Berger, René Cappers, Sonja Filatova, Roland Hardenberg, Ashutosh Kumar and Nidhi Trivedi

How and when did millets become so deeply entangled with the cultures and lifeworlds of the Parenga, the Didayi, and other millet-cultivating communities in the highlands of Odisha? Under what circumstances were various millets chosen to become part of the...

Processing of little millet (photo by Ashutosh Kumar, 2023).

Millets: Ancient Grains, Global Policies, Local Lifeworlds - The Local Perspective (4/6)

Date:19 December 2024
Author:Peter Berger, René Cappers, Sonja Filatova, Roland Hardenberg, Ashutosh Kumar and Nidhi Trivedi

Nidhi Trivedi and Ashutosh Kumar, the two PhD researchers of the NWO project, have now each completed sixteen months of ethnographic research in two different Adivasi villages. They investigated how millets are embedded in the lifeworlds of the local...

A school in an Adivasi village. A Brahman priest and a school teacher perform a fire sacrifice for the Hindu goddess Saraswati. The classroom has temporarily been converted into a Hindu temple. Local Indigenous deities or practices are not considered important (photo by Peter Berger, 2010)

Millets: Ancient Grains, Global Policies, Local Lifeworlds - Biodiversity and cultural diversity (3/6)

Date:18 December 2024
Author:Peter Berger, René Cappers, Sonja Filatova, Roland Hardenberg, Ashutosh Kumar and Nidhi Trivedi

The millet revival and associated new policies are encumbered by a fundamental and complex problem our research projects deal with: the disconnection of crops and culture. In Odisha, while millets are now celebrated as a “salvage crop” for the future, the...

The government of Odisha has started to include products made from finger millets (ragi) into provisions for school children (from the website of the Odisha Millet Mission / Shree Anna Abhiyan)

Millets: Ancient Grains, Global Policies, Local Lifeworlds - Historical and Contemporary Changes (2/6)

Date:17 December 2024
Author:Peter Berger, René Cappers, Sonja Filatova, Roland Hardenberg, Ashutosh Kumar and Nidhi Trivedi

Archaeobotanical and historical studies have shown that a changing fate of millets is not unprecedented (de Wet 2000, Fuller 2014, Fuller et al. 2010, Haaland 2011, Kingwell-Banham and Fuller 2012, Morrison 2016). During the Late Harappan period, for...

The emblem of the IYOM 2023 combines iconic references to different kinds of millets that together form the most promoted millet variety, finger millet, and to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (the “zero” of 2023).

Millets: Ancient Grains, Global Policies, Local Lifeworlds - The glorification of a cereal (1/6)

Date:16 December 2024
Author:Peter Berger, René Cappers, Sonja Filatova, Roland Hardenberg, Ashutosh Kumar and Nidhi Trivedi

During his visit to the White House on June 21 2023, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi was served “Marinated Millets” by his host, US President Joe Biden, an appreciation of the importance of the International Year of Millets 2023 that was launched by...

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