Brown top millet (Brachiaria ramosa L. Stapf; Panicum ramosum L.)—a neglected and smart crop in fighting against hunger and malnutrition

Small millets are rich in nutritional qualities and also treated as a functional food. Recently, they attracted the attention of health-conscious consumers because of their nutritional quality after neglect of the last 5 decades. Considering its quality in terms of nutrition and climate resilience, it may be considered as nutricereal and future food in the present consequence of climate change. Brown top millet is one of the neglected small millets with moderately good demand in the market, and it can be cultivated in tropic and subtropics due to its wider adaptability. The crop is also of short duration that gives ample scope to fit into various cropping systems. Further, brown top millet does not require a sizable quantity of high energy input, and thus, it has the quality to lower carbon footprint in agriculture. This chapter discusses crop botany, nutritional importance, distribution in the world, good agronomic practices to obtain an optimum yield, tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses in the present consequences of climate change, and value addition. The crop offers enough opportunity for research for maximizing productivity under limited resource conditions targeting food as well as nutritional security for the future inclusive of proper value addition to make it a nutritious food for the future.