Another well researched piece on the quinoa controversy; this time looking at the complicated history that led to today's controversial quinoa boom.
Tanya Kerrsen, a Bolivia-based researcher for Food First who studies quinoa says,
"She feels troubled that American accounts of the story “either fall on the side of ‘the quinoa boom is amazing and it's lifting people out of poverty’ or ‘the quinoa boom is terrible and is destroying people's lives,’ and in both of those narratives the indigenous people are given no agency… If we know about quinoa at all in the north, it's because of peasants really fighting anti-peasant policies during the most anti-peasant period… these people being like what can we do to survive on the land with our culture doing something that is culturally appropriate." "
Read the article by Jill Richardson at Alter Net.
Tanya Kerrsen, a Bolivia-based researcher for Food First who studies quinoa says,
"She feels troubled that American accounts of the story “either fall on the side of ‘the quinoa boom is amazing and it's lifting people out of poverty’ or ‘the quinoa boom is terrible and is destroying people's lives,’ and in both of those narratives the indigenous people are given no agency… If we know about quinoa at all in the north, it's because of peasants really fighting anti-peasant policies during the most anti-peasant period… these people being like what can we do to survive on the land with our culture doing something that is culturally appropriate." "
Read the article by Jill Richardson at Alter Net.