This FAIRsharing record describes: The goal of the CGIAR Pearl Millet Ontology is to help improve food security for subsistence smallholder farmers in East and West Africa with productive and nutritious pearl millet food and fodder production technologies. The source of this description is the metadata record on FAIRsharing.org, an educational and informative resource that describes and links databases, standards, and data policies. FAIRsharing also creates collections of these resources and recommendations of databases and standards based on 3rd party data policies.