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		Lost Crops of Africa: Volume 1 - Grains (BOSTID, 1996, 372 p.)
			(introduction...)
			Notice
			Panel
			Staff
			Contributors
			Preface
			Foreword
			Introduction
			1. African Rice
			2. Finger Millet
			3. Fonio (Acha)
			4. Pearl Millet
			5. Pearl Millet: Subsistence Types
			6. Pearl Millet: Commercial Types
			7. Sorghum
			8. Sorghum: Subsistence Types
			9. Sorghum: Commercial Types
			10. Sorghum: Specialty Types
			11. Sorghum: Fuel and Utility Types
			12. Tef
			13. Other Cultivated Grains
			14. Wild Grains
			Appendix A
			Appendix B
			Appendix C
			Appendix D
			Appendix E
			Appendix F
			Appendix G
			Appendix H
			Appendix I
			The BOSTID Innovation Program

The BOSTID Innovation Program

Since its inception in 1970, BOSTID has had a small project to evaluate innovations that could help the Third World. Formerly known as the Advisory Committee on Technology

Innovation (ACTI), this small program has been identifying unconventional developments in science and technology that might help solve specific developing-country problems. In a sense, it acts as an "innovation scout" - providing information on options that should be tested or incorporated into activities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

So far, the BOSTID innovation program has published about 40 reports, covering, among other things, underexploited crops, trees, and animal resources, as well as energy production and use. Each book is produced by a committee of scientists and technologists

(including both skeptics and proponents), with scores (often hundreds) of researchers contributing their knowledge and recommendations through correspondence and meetings.

These reports are aimed at providing reliable and balanced information, much of it not readily available elsewhere and some of it never before recorded. In its two decades of existence, this program has distributed more than 500,000 copies of its reports. Among other things, it has introduced to the world grossly neglected plant species such as jojoba, guayule, leucaena, mangium, amaranth, and the winged bean.

BOSTID's innovation books, although often quite detailed, are designed to be easy to read and understand. They are produced in an attractive, eye-catching format, their text and language carefully crafted to reach a readership that is uninitiated in the given field. In addition, most are illustrated in a way that helps readers deduce their message from the pictures and captions, and most have brief, carefully selected bibliographies, as well as lists of research contacts that lead readers to further information.

By and large, these books aim to catalyze actions within the Third World, but they usually also have utility in the United States, Europe, Japan, and other industrialized nations.

So far, the BOSTID innovation project on underexploited ThirdWorld resources (Noel Vietmeyer, Director and Scientific Editor) has produced the following reports.

Ferrocement: Applications in Developing Countries (1973). 104 pp.
Mosquito Control: Perspectives for Developing Countries (1973). 76 PP.
Some Prospects for Aquatic Weed Management in Guyana (1974). 52 pp.
Roofing in Developing Countries: Research for New Technologies (1974). 84 pp.
An International Centre for Manatee Research (1974). 38 pp.
More Water for Arid Lands (1974). 165 pp.
Products from Jojoba (1975). 38 pp.
Underexploited Tropical Plants (1975). 199 pp.
The Winged Bean (1975). 51 pp.
Natural Products for Sri Lanka's Future (1975). 53 pp.
Making Aquatic Weeds Useful (1976). 183 pp.
Guayule: An Alternative Source of Natural Rubber (1977). 92 pp.
Aquatic Weed Management: Some Prospects for the Sudan (1976).57 pp.
Ferrocement: A Versatile Construction Material (1976). 106 pp.
More Water for Arid Lands (French edition, 1977). 164 pp.
Leucaena: Promising Forage and Tree Crop for the Tropics (1977).123 pp.
Natural Products for Trinidad and the Caribbean (1979). 50 pp.
Tropical Legumes (1979). 342 pp.
Firewood Crops: Shrub and Tree Species for Energy Production (volume 1, 1980). 249 pp.
Water Buffalo: New Prospects for an Underutilized Animal (1981).126 pp.
Sowing Forests from the Air (1981). 71 pp.
Producer Gas: Another Fuel for Motor Transport (1983). 109 pp.
Producer Gas Bibliography (1983). 50 pp.
The Winged Bean: A High-Protein Crop for the Humid Tropics(1981). 58 pp.
Mangium and Other Fast-Growing Acacias (1983). 72 pp.
Calliandra: A Versatile Tree for the Humid Tropics (1983). 60 pp.
Butterfly Farming in Papua New Guinea (1983). 42 pp.
Crocodiles as a Resource for the Tropics (1983). 69 pp.
Little-Known Asian Animals With Promising Economic Future(1983). 145 pp.
Firewood Crops: Shrub and Tree Species for Energy Production,Volume 2 (1983). 103 pp.
Casuarinas: Nitrogen-Fixing Trees for Adverse Sites (1984). 128 pp.
Amaranth: Modern Prospects for an Ancient Crop (1984). 90 pp.
Leucaena: Promising Forage and Tree Crop (Second edition, 1984).110 pp.
Jojoba: A New Crop for Arid Lands (1985). 112 pp.
Quality-Protein Maize (1988). 112 pp.
Triticale: A Promising Addition to the World's Cereal Grains (1989).113 pp.