ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors report on their work to inform the development of technology within the context of the International Sorghum and Millet Project (INTSORMIL) in southern Honduras. Their goal was to show what forms of new and/or improved technology would be most appropriate for helping resource-poor farmers. The authors thought this could most effectively be done if improving the nutrition of the farm families were explicitly incorporated as a goal of the agricultural research and development process. INTSORMIL's mandate is to increase the production and consumption of sorghum and millet world-wide. To achieve these goals it has focused on basic science and the development of intermediate level technology. The agrobiological scientists involved in the project are all deeply committed to improving the welfare of resource-poor farmers. Ethnographic research was used to determine and document the various pathways by which food enters the household.
