The quinoa bust : the making and unmaking of an Andean miracle crop /

"High in the Peruvian altiplano, 13,000 feet above sea level, quinoa's rise to global stardom was pitched as an unparalleled sustainable development opportunity that heralded a brighter future for rural communities devastated by decades of rural-urban migration, civil war, and state neglec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McDonell, Emma (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2025]
Series:California studies in food and culture ; 84.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Quinoa's promise
  • Reimagining the future of a neglected crop
  • Whitening a "Comida de Indios" : culinary bioprospecting and the inca superfood
  • The quinoa frontier : making a productive and orderly landscape
  • Producing good quinoa : the moral politics of quality standards
  • Disarticulations : uneven risks and fragile relations in the quinoa bust
  • fragmented knowledge and intractable residues in the quinoa supply chain
  • (Re)building Reputation : origin-based labels and the elusive promise of differentiation
  • Conclusion.