Lack or near absence of production support schemes like minimum support price is the key limitation for the production of small millet crops in the country. This has promoted monoculture farming practices which in turn jeopardize the crop diversity, and loss of area under highly nutritious small millets.
Millets are traditionally and culturally accepted staple food that require very low input costs. Are easily grown in water stress areas and period of maturation is comparatively lower. They are highly nutritious and provide food security, making them an ideal crop of the 21st Century, especially in view of changing climate increasing population stress.
Millets are a super-food that has immense potential to improve dietary diversity. It is a hardy crop that is drought- and pest-resistant, is a part of subsistence diet and still faces significant hurdles in its forward market linkage. Production regions and processing zones don’t coincide in India, diverting consumption of value-added products to niche, urban markets.
An essential part of Pro-ACT is strengthening the District Disaster Management Committees to develop contingency plans that address the needs of communities.
It assessed WFP's alignment and strategic positioning; the factors and quality of its strategic decision-making; and the performance and the results of the portfolio. Portfolio performance was characterised by technical competence – strong work was done by dedicated staff – but strategic drift.
This series of country case studies (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Fiji, Madagascar and Zambia) focuses on the design of microinsurance programmes and their linkages with social protection, including good practices and recommendations for replication in other countries and the strengthening of cross-functional work.