Re:Quinoa should be taking over the world. This is why it isn’t
by mathattack on Thursday July 11, 2013 @05:30PM
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Every farmer has a decision: Eat the grain, or sell the grain. They sell it if the money has more value to them than eating it. Unless they're indentured servants or slaves, they are doing this for their own benefit. If they'd starve as a result, they just wouldn't sell the crop.
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Re:Quinoa should be taking over the world. This is why it isn’t
by rosser on Thursday July 11, 2013 @05:43PM
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What about the broader community?
Re:Quinoa should be taking over the world. This is why it isn’t
by icebraining on Thursday July 11, 2013 @08:11PM
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How broader? ;)
The local community loses cheap quinoa, but gains with the influx of money from abroad.
Re:Quinoa should be taking over the world. This is why it isn’t
by Daishiman on Friday July 12, 2013 @01:40AM
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If the local community has no economic integration and no means to afford the transportation costs associated with imports (because transportation has been optimized for a certain crop), then it's a problem.
Malnutrition has been an endemic problem in Bolivia since the Spaniards pillaged its mineral wealth. This does little to improve things.