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Stakeholders’ perceptions of and preferences for utilizing fonio (Digitaria exilis) to enrich local diets for food and nutritional security in Nigeria

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Fonio (Digitaria exilis), also called “acha” in Nigeria, is a staple food crop that plays an important role in food and nutritional security for millions of people in West Africa. However, in Nigeria, as in most African countries where it is consumed as a whole grain to enrich local diets, its utilization patterns are poorly documented. Thus, generating knowledge of stakeholders’ perceptions of and preferences for its use is critical for understanding the constraints and drivers affecting fonio utilization patterns. The main objective of this study was to review the utilization patterns of fonio by providing key information on stakeholders’ perceptions and preferences in Nigeria. In this review, we first discuss production and synthesize some basic information relevant to different uses of fonio and stakeholders’ perceptions of and preferences for such use. We also examine how farmers often maintain fonio diversity, highlight challenges that limit production and consumption on a wide scale and propose a roadmap for scaling up production and increasing the adoption level of fonio. The roadmap proposed in this study is based on five axes, namely, production, innovation in postharvest and processing technologies, marketing systems, technology dissemination, and novel gene prospecting. We assume that documenting the generated knowledge will increase public awareness of the nutritional and health properties associated with food-based products and help guide policy-makers and the private sector to strategically support the research and development of the native crop of West Africa for sustainable food and nutritional security. Further ethnobotanical research will be necessary to shed light on the extent and patterns of indigenous knowledge of fonio-based traditional foods in Nigeria.

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  1. Department of Crop Production & Landscape Management, Faculty of Agriculture & Natural Resources Management, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria

    Happiness Oselebe & Catherine Ifekwe

  2. Genetics, Biotechnology and Seed Sciences Unit (GBioS), Faculty of Agronomic Sciences (FSA), University of Abomey-Calavi (UAC), 01 BP 526, Cotonou, Republic of Benin

    Abdou Razakou Ibrahim Bio Yerima, Catherine Ifekwe, Charlotte O. A. Adje & Enoch G. Achigan-Dako

  3. Department of Rainfed Crop Production (DCP), National Institute of Agronomic Research of Niger (INRAN), BP 429, Niamey, Niger

    Abdou Razakou Ibrahim Bio Yerima

  4. Department of Applied Biology, Faculty of Science, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria

    Catherine V. Nnamani

  5. Department of Plant Science and Biotechnology, Federal University of Lafia, Lafia, Nasarawa State,, Nigeria

    Emmanuel H. Kwon-Ndung

  6. Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria

    Celestine A. Afiukwa

  7. Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria

    Edak A. Uyoh

  8. Department of Biological Sciences, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi, Nigeria

    Suleiman Dangana Abdul

  9. Department of Agricultural Economics, Kogi State University, Anyigba, Nigeria

    H. I. Opaluwa

  10. National Cereals Research Institute, Badeggi, Bida, Nigeria

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Ibrahim Bio Yerima, A., Oselebe, H., Nnamani, C.V. et al. Stakeholders’ perceptions of and preferences for utilizing fonio (Digitaria exilis) to enrich local diets for food and nutritional security in Nigeria. Genet Resour Crop Evol 71, 999–1011 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10722-023-01837-9

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