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Quinoa isn't a threat to food security. It's improving Peruvian farmers' lives
Worldwide appetite for this super grain was once thought to be undermining food security in the Andes, but a new report suggests the opposite is true
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From one perspective it's improving the lives of the farmers in that there's more work and even small farmers can sell quinoa for better prices than they used to. On the other hand, the consequences of high demand are really messing with the ecosystem in Ecuador and Peru.