Amaranth in Bolivia

Bolivia has been the source of many members’ investigations, including: The Role of Amaranth in the Changing Farm Dynamics of Chuquisaca, Bolivia and its Contribution to the Incomes of Producers given at the 2015 Conference by former Board Member Anna Madalinska who is at Department of Plant and Environmental Science, in the Faculty of Science of the University of Copenhagen.

“Increased interest in grain amaranth due to its high nutritional content has opened new markets of commercialization. In the Department of Chuquisaca, Bolivia, communities have begun to increase the area cultivated by the crop to respond to profit incentives and increased promotion of the crop by various government, commercial and institutional actors.”

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