THE IMPORTANCE
OF MILLET CULTIVATION

2023 is the UN Year of Millet, which highlights the important role of millet as a food crop for climate-ready agriculture and high nutritional value to communities around the world. Millet has been heralded as having a high degree of environmental tolerance to difficult conditions, such as drought, cold, salinity, low-fertility soils, as well as having the ability to be stored for decades.

However, millet cultivation is declining globally, and there is an urgent need to revitalize it and preserve ancient seeds. Collaborating with Indigenous and local millet farmers in Zimbabwe, India, Japan, and Canada, this project seeks to create a platform that enables ‘storytelling from millet cultivators around the world’, highlighting some of the diverse perspectives around millet cultivation and reciprocal relationships with the land. By growing millet together and exchanging stories across borders, this initiative aims to promote millet cultivation in each community, contributing to improve community and climate resiliency.