Wild Grains and Enhancing Nomadic Income

[gurey25]

http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?recor ... 5&page=260
This is a fascinating book freely available.

In the chapter about wild grains and how they used to makeup a large part of the diet and income of people in the sahel, before
desertification and population/livestock growth reduced them to a marginal level.
Apparently they used to be more popular than Finger and pearl millet and even fonio.

Some of these like some panicum species are all over somalia but we never used them.
Imagine if these like Drinn and panic species could be encouraged to grow, even the driest parts of somalia and the ogaden are ideal for them, they could provide a boost to the economy.

[Basra-]

[gurey25]

basra dont derail this usefull topic.
ive taken a break from my usual subjects, agriculture is my new interest.

[Basra-]

[Meyle]

Interesting, the earliest proto Afro-Asiatic speakers that moved out of the Horn were pretty on a diet consisting of wild grains and they introduced it to other parts of Africa, mainly upper Egypt.

The origins of Egyptian ethnicity lay in the areas south of Egypt. The ancient Egyptian language belonged to the Afrasian family (also called Afroasiatic or, formerly, Hamito-Semitic). The speakers of the earliest Afrasian languages, according to recent studies, were a set of people whose lands between 15,000 and 13,000 B.C. stretched from Nubia in the west to far northern Somalia in the east. They supported themselves by gathering wild grains. The first elements of Egyptian culture were laid down two thousand years later, between 12,000 and 10,000 B.C., when some of these Afrasian communities expanded northward into Egypt, bringing with them a language directly ancestral to ancient Egyptian. They also introduced to Egypt the idea of using wild grains as food.

A new religion came with them as well. Its central tenet explains the often localized origins of later Egyptian gods: the earliest Afrasians were, properly speaking, neither monotheistic nor polytheistic. Instead, each local community, comprising a clan or a group of related clans, had its own distinct deity and centered its religious observances on that deity.


Christopher Ehret
Professor of History, University of California at Los Angeles

I agree though, new ideas have to be implemented.

[gurey25]

Most of the worlds grains evolved in the sahara, when it was grassland.
Most of the millets, pearl, finger, foxtail, porso, even teff.
some even theorize that eincorn and emmer wheat and barley where discovered in the sahara before introduction into the fertile crescent.

[Basra-]

[barbarossa]

basra dont derail this usefull topic.
ive taken a break from my usual subjects, agriculture is my new interest.

Gurey, good luck inducing Basra to take an interest in thread that has apparently nothing to do with none of her favorite themes, namely the followings:
The lives and the scandals of prominent Victorian age aristocratic personage
The intimate minutiae details of her hub's life long struggles to satisfy her insatiable sexual drive
Constantly exhorting some random guy in this forum to come out of the closet, and openly admit his homosexual tendencies
And last but not least, always wishing upon someone to be struck down with the dreaded HIV.

Now, none of the above mentioned topics are present in this thread, so, shall it, really, come to us as surprise, that upon stumbling on this thread, concerning wild grains and nomadic income, all Basra could do was, out of sheer boredom, liberally yawn?

[Basra-]

barbarossa @loooooooooool


Corrections: I didn't yawn. I merely laughed. (and perhaps mystified-as shown my initial avatar lol)


barb

face it. The topic is yawning inducing as u alluded, but at least I didn't allude to it. Come on? Grains? Fonio? finger? pearl millet? sahel? WTF?????

[original dervish]

Gurey

Somali's are just too lazy to bother with anything other than chewing khaat.
I've visited most of the north.....people just lool around sipping tea all day.