No rain, no grain? Ethnoarchaeology of sorghum and millet cultivation in dryland environments of Sudan, Pakistan, and Ethiopia

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• dc.contributor.author Biagetti, Stefano
• dc.contributor.author Ruiz-Giralt, Abel
• dc.contributor.author Madella, Marco
• dc.contributor.author Magzoub, Mongeda Khalid
• dc.contributor.author Meresa, Yemane
• dc.contributor.author Gebreselassie, Mulubrhan Haile
• dc.contributor.author Veesar, Ghulam Mohiuddin
• dc.contributor.author Abro, Tasleem Alam
• dc.contributor.author Chandio, Amin
• dc.contributor.author Lancelotti, Carla
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-01-11T11:59:21Z
• dc.date.available 2024-01-11T11:59:21Z
• dc.date.issued 2021
• dc.description Includes supplemental materials for the online appendix.
• dc.description.abstract Drylands cover more than 40% of the earth’s land surface, are found on all continents, and are home to 30% of the world’s population. Due to water scarcity, they are generally considered unsuitable for lasting human settlement. While pastoralism has been reconceptualized recently as a rational, efficient, and sustainable way to live in drylands, agriculture without irrigation is generally considered unfeasible in hyper-arid and arid drylands. This article presents data collected in ethnographic interviews in dryland areas in three countries, Sudan, Pakistan, and Ethiopia, to document and understand the cultivation practices of pearl millet, finger millet, and sorghum in drylands. Contrary to general trends favoring adoption of more water-intensive crops, our results show that farming without irrigation represents a viable strategy even where rainfall is considered insufficient. We argue that it is important to recognize the sustainability and value of dryland agricultural systems, past, present, and future.
• dc.description.sponsorship This research is supported by RAINDROPS with funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (ERC-Stg-2017) under grant agreement 759800.
• dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
• dc.identifier.citation Biagetti S, Ruiz-Giralt A, Madella M, Magzoub, MK, Meresa Y, Gebreselassie MH, et al. No rain, no grain? Ethnoarchaeology of sorghum and millet cultivation in dryland environments of Sudan, Pakistan, and Ethiopia. Ethnoarchaeology. 2021;13(1-2):80-104. DOI: 10.1080/19442890.2022.2059994
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19442890.2022.2059994
• dc.identifier.issn 1944-2890
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/58667
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Taylor & Francis
• dc.relation.ispartof Ethnoarchaeology: Journal of Archaeological, Ethnographic and Experimental Studies. 2021;13(1-2):80-104
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/759800
• dc.rights © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Drylands
• dc.subject.keyword Ethnoarchaeology
• dc.subject.keyword Rainfed cultivation
• dc.subject.keyword Resilience
• dc.subject.keyword Traditional ecological knowledge
• dc.subject.keyword Pearl millet
• dc.subject.keyword Finger millet
• dc.subject.keyword Sorghum
• dc.title No rain, no grain? Ethnoarchaeology of sorghum and millet cultivation in dryland environments of Sudan, Pakistan, and Ethiopia
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