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Quinoa has been a staple food for Andean populations for millennia. Today, it is a much-appreciated product on the international health-food, organic and fair-trade food markets. Quinoa producers in the southern Altiplano of Bolivia initiated this change approximately 40 years ago. On high desert land, they succeeded in developing a thriving agricultural crop for export. Although they enjoy lucrative niche markets, quinoa producers are not specialized farmers, nor do most of them live yearround in the production area. These are some of the paradoxes that characterize quinoa production in the southern Altiplano of Bolivia. Following a description of the origin, diversity and biological traits of the ‘Quinoa Real’ ecotype, on which production in this area is based, this chapter explores the importance of quinoa in local agrosystems and in the systems of agricultural and non-agricultural activities managed by southern Altiplano families. Geographic mobility and pluriactivity are part of the ancestral lifestyle of these populations and have to date determined how territorial resources are used and producers are organized in the context of quinoa’s commercial success. Quinoa production in the region is presenting signs of agro-ecological and social vulnerability; however, it has the capacities to respond and adapt accordingly. Key points for the sustainability of local agrosystems are: i) harmonization of communal and individual regulations concerning access to and use of land in socially equitable agrosystems with a balance between crops and animal husbandry, ii) international standards for the recognition of ‘Quinoa Real’ in export markets, iii) continuous updating of rules and regulations so that local agrosystems can adapt to unpredictable changes in the socio-ecological context on different scales of space and time.
Agricultura Tropica et Subtropica
An Andean Ancient Crop, Chenopodium quinoa Willd: A Review2014 •
Chenopodium quinoa Willd., is the oldest pseudocereal native from the Andean Region from 20° N in Columbia to 40°S in Chile, it grows from sea level to an altitude of 3 800 m, adapted to several agroclimates and abiotic stress. Quinoa is an annual plant that reaches a height of 0.2 to 3.0 m, it can display a variety of colours from the leaves and inflorescences. Quinoa seeds present a rich source of a variety of minerals, vitamins and higher contents of most essential amino acids, especially lysine which reveals its potential for a valuable ingredient in the preparation of highly nutritious food and also its nutraceutical properties. The high genetic variability and premises properties of quinoa make it potential to be grown worldwide, even it has been declared “The International Year of the Quinoa” (IYQ) by the United Nations in the year 2013.
2007 •
2013 •
Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca
Diversity of Quinoa in a Biogeographical Island: a Review of Constraints and Potential from Arid to Temperate Regions of Chile2014 •
Chilean journal of agricultural research
Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) and its relationship with agroclimatic characteristics: A Colombian perspective2020 •
Quinoa has been a staple food for Andean populations for millennia. Today, it is a much-appreciated product on the international health-food, organic and fair-trade food markets. Quinoa producers in the southern Altiplano of Bolivia initiated this change approximately 40 years ago. On high desert land, they succeeded in developing a thriving agricultural crop for export. Although they enjoy lucrative niche markets, quinoa producers are not specialized farmers, nor do most of them live yearround in the production area. These are some of the paradoxes that characterize quinoa production in the southern Altiplano of Bolivia. Following a description of the origin, diversity and biological traits of the ‘Quinoa Real’ ecotype, on which production in this area is based, this chapter explores the importance of quinoa in local agrosystems and in the systems of agricultural and non-agricultural activities managed by southern Altiplano families. Geographic mobility and pluriactivity are part o...
Global Environmental Change
Panarchy of an indigenous agroecosystem in the globalized market: The quinoa production in the Bolivian Altiplano2016 •
2011 •
Quinoa crop (Chenopodium quinoa) has been cultivated since the last seven thousand years in Latin America. However the nutritional and functional properties have been diffused only since the last decade. The exportation market to Northern countries is increasing at levels not seen previously for an organic product. Its ancient cultivation practices were normally sustainable even in Chile. However strong isolation of today' small farmers in Chile has provoked less access to international markets and also great genetic distances among cultivars from the long latitudinal and ecological gradient where this crop is cultivated (4000 m.a.s.l. at 19oS to coastal areas at sea level between 18oS to 40oS). The nutritional diversity along this gradient has not been previously studied. This study focuses on the nutritional properties of five distinctive local land races found along Chile, belonging to different genetic pools, but collected from farmers that have not developed formal crop imp...
2021 •
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Revista Espanola De Drogodependencias
A proposito de un caso de patología dual2012 •
Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Cord Blood Transplantation from Unrelated Donors for Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Japan: The Impact of Methotrexate on Clinical Outcomes2011 •
2016 •
Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências (Belo Horizonte)
A (Re)Construção De Conceitos Biológicos Na Formação Inicial De Professores e Proposição De Um Modelo Explicativo Para a Relação Genótipo e Fenótipo2012 •
Bioconjugate Chemistry
Binding, Electrochemical Activation, and Cleavage of DNA by Cobalt(II) Tetrakis-N-methylpyridyl Porphyrin and Its β-Pyrrole Brominated Derivative2006 •
The Journal of clinical pediatric dentistry
Clinical and Radiographic Evaluation of Formocresol and Chloramphenicol, Tetracycline and Zinc Oxide-Eugenol Antibiotic Paste in Primary Teeth Pulpotomies: 24 month follow up2018 •
Bolskan: Revista de arqueología del Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses
Prehistoria de la provincia de Zaragoza1990 •
2011 •
Chemischer Informationsdienst
ChemInform Abstract: Nitrogen Bridgehead Compounds. Part 58. Nucleophilic Ring Cleavage of 1-Thia-2a,5a-diazaacenaphthene Ring1986 •
2007 •
Tạp chí Khoa học Ngoại ngữ
Nghiên Cứu Đối Chiếu Thành Ngữ So Sánh Trong Một Số Truyện Ngắn Và Tiểu Thuyết Tiếng Việt Và Tiếng AnhJournal of Visualized Experiments
Measuring Carbon-based Contaminant Mineralization Using Combined CO<sub>2</sub> Flux and Radiocarbon Analyses2016 •