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Re:Quinoa should be taking over the world. This is why it isn’t by gohrt on Thursday July 11, 2013 @07:16PM (#6029915)
Non-farmers in Peru used to be able to afford food. In a sense, they were getting discount-priced quinoa.

Now, farmers are selling quinoa to foreigners, so the farmers are making more money, but everyone else is paying more for food.

One solution would be to impose some sort of tax, to share the windfall quinoa profits with the former customers, or cooperative community ownership of the farms. Or farmers spending their increased profits on the labors of other locals in the community.

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Re:Quinoa should be taking over the world. This is why it isn’t by temp453463343 on Thursday July 11, 2013 @07:24PM (#6029949)
The farmers are the people bringing in money into the economy. The rest of society starts to simply charge more for their services b/c their expenses have gone up.
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