Quinoa
Botany, Production and Uses
Shilpi Srivastava author Atul Bhargava author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:CABI Publishing
Published:23rd Sep '13
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The first comprehensive review of one of the world’s most important crops for future food security.
The first comprehensive review of quinoa, this book includes four sections covering the history of the crop, phylogeny and systematics, botany and agrotechnology, and the qualitative aspects, economics and marketing of quinoa, making it a vital resource for students and researchers of crop science.* 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
ISBN: 9781780642260
Dimensions: 244mm x 172mm x 19mm
Weight: 740g
264 pages