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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 (#6029432)
What about the broader community?
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Re:Quinoa should be taking over the world. This is why it isn’t by icebraining on Thursday July 11, 2013 @08:11PM (#6030111)
How broader? ;)

The local community loses cheap quinoa, but gains with the influx of money from abroad.

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Re:Quinoa should be taking over the world. This is why it isn’t by Daishiman on Friday July 12, 2013 @01:40AM (#6031117)
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.

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