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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2025]
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| 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.