MILLET · Old crops for new insights: agricultural systems of broomcorn and foxtail millet cultivation in Iberia
„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“
- Период
- 2022-01-10 → 2024-03-19
- Финансиране от ЕС
- 212 934 €
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Накратко на български
Отглеждането на просо в Иберийския полуостров се анализира чрез сравнение между древни практики и съвременното традиционно земеделие. Това помага да се разберат моделите за използване на земята и да се подобрят устойчивите методи за осигуряване на храна.
Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.
Резултати накратко
Old crops for new insights: agricultural systems of broomcorn and foxtail millet cultivation in Iberia
The study of millet is of growing archaeological interest because it is a plant whose use and importance in human and animal nutrition can be traced back to the past. This fascination has also gone hand in hand with its revaluation as a crop in modern times, thanks to its cultivation in arid conditions, its nutritional qualities and its great adaptability to climates and soils, which make it a very desirable cereal for sustainable practices and circular agriculture, pivotal to addressing food security. The MILLET project provides first-hand evidence of millet cultivation in the Iberian Peninsula, while allowing us to bridge the gap between past farming practices and current food security concerns. The overall objectives are: 1) to develop a methodological approach to millet cultivation in contemporary traditional agriculture of the NW Iberian Peninsula, 2) to establish new theoretical frameworks that can be applied to the study of farming systems, and 3) to propose models of land use and millet use in past societies in order to study the contexts of production, consumption and waste.
Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз
Цел на проекта
In the middle of the second millennium BC, the spread of two new Asian crops (broomcorn and foxtail millet) throughout Europe led to major socio-economic changes. However, despite its abundance in archaeological sites, we know very little about its cultivation techniques and uses. Millets can be traced through multiple archaeological approaches (seeds, phytoliths, biomolecular markers) providing great potential for their investigation. In order to understand their importance in agricultural systems this project aims to produce new evidence from modern and archaeological samples from western Europe. To provide innovative perspectives, the project will focus on an interdisciplinary approach that combines ethnobotany, archaeobotany, stable isotopes and experimental agriculture to reconstruct cultivation techniques and environmental constraints. Combining stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values with functional weed ecology – an approach pioneered at Oxford – will allow detailed reconstruction of growing conditions and production regimes. The fellow will receive training in these techniques, which will enable comparison between present-day millet-growing systems and archaeobotanical assemblages from 24 sites in the Iberian peninsula. Determining the agroecology of millet cultivation will provide a fresh perspective on current theories regarding their adoption in late prehistory and will contribute to major advances in the study of past and present-day farming systems. The results will also articulate with work on climate change, food, genetic diversity and sustainability associated with traditional knowledge, placing this research at the forefront of the current scientific context of agrarian studies.
Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).
Участници
- THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · OxfordКоординаторОбединеното кралство
Връзки
Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз