Quinoa

Botany, Production and Uses

von Shilpi Srivastava, Atul Bhargava

264 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

* Quinoa is an invaluable crop, highlighted by the FAO as one of the world's main crops for future food security* Timely publication - The year 2013 has been declared "The International Year of the Quinoa" (IYQ), recognizing the Andean indigenous peoples, who have maintained, controlled, protected and preserved quinoa as food for present and future generations thanks to their traditional knowledge and practices of living well in harmony with mother earth and nature.* Covers the history, phylogeny and systematics, botany and agrotechnology