Promoted as ‘superfood’, quinoa has experienced a veritable boom on the world market entailing profound changes for local farmers and their livelihoods. However, for local farmers, quinoa production is associated with risks and uncertainties, which have become even more pronounced after the quinoa price decrease over the past 5 years.
This video explores and illustrates strategies of quinoa farmers to make quinoa production more sustainable, socially, economically and ecologically. It has been created by Alejandro Romero, PhD candidate of the “Feminization, agricultural transition and rural employment” research project that is coordinated by CDE, University of Bern. The video is part of the Digital Storytellers synthesis of the Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development.