Quinoa Resources
What is Quinoa?
- Origin, distribution, varieties, uses, cultivation, UN FAO
- Chenopodium quinoa - Willd, Plants for A Future
- PermaCulture Wiki on quinoa
History
- The Origins of Quinoa, Video
- 1986, Quinoa first coming to market in the United States, VideoClip
- Atawallpap Mikhunan: Quinoa, Mother Grain of the Incas, Planeta Article
Growing
- Experiment to grow quinoa in Waterloo Region, Canada
- USA organically grown quinoa at White Mountain Farm, Mosca, Colorado
- Occurrence of downy mildew on Canadian quinoa plants
- Mildew of quinoa in the Andean region
- Pictures of quinoa harvest from Quinoa Corp.
- Developing adapted varieties and optimal management practices for quinoa in diverse environments, BIOAG PROJECT PROGRESS REPORT
Conservation
Market
- Promising EU export markets for quinoa, Report
- The Challenges of Developing a Sustainable AgroIndustry in Bolivia: the Quinoa Market, Report
Media
Scientific Research
- The 2013 International Symposium On Quinoa, Videos
- Cultivos Andinos / FAO - Version 1.0, Quinua (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.), Article
- Quinoa: an emerging crop with potential for use on NASA space missions, Article
- Quinoa, Alternative Field Crop Manual, Report
- Sustainable Water Use Securing Food Production in Dry Areas of the Mediterranean Region by SWUP-MED, Article
Not-For-Profit Organizations
Producer Organizations
- Northern
- Associacion National de Productores de Quinua (ANAPQUI)
- Camara Boliviana de exportadores de quinua y producto organicos (CABOLQUI) http://www.cabolqui.org/
- Colombian quinoa, Agrosolidaria Sorocá site/video
- Central de Cooperativas Agropecuarias Operación Tierra (CECAOT)
- Quinoa Alliance
- Jiaqi Quinoa/Good Cereals, China, site
Products
- Fair Trade Quinoa Vodka, Fair
Technology
When the general search terms for quinoa, rice, wheat, potato and corn are entered into google trends web search we find that interest in quinoa has risen over the past decade to the point of surpassing wheat in January 2014.
Top web search interest in quinoa comes from Canada, Australia and the US. Why is Canada the top region for quinoa web searching? What does that reflect - increased interest due to domestic production in the prairies of Canada? Or does it reflect a growing concern about foreign production in the Andes? Or something else?