Botany & plant sciences
Quinoa
Botany, Production and Uses
by Atul Bhargava, Shilpi Srivastava, Didier Bazile, Enrique A Martínez, Francisco Fuentes
Description
* 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
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- Publisher CAB International
- Publication Date September 2013
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781780642260 / 1780642261
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 90 GBP
- Pages264
- ReadershipProfessional and Scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2013
