Quinoa Expansion in Peru and Its Implications for Land Use Management
| Autor: | Antonio Domingos Padula, Noelia S. Bedoya-Perales, Angel Mujica, Edson Talamini, Guilherme Pumi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine
Expansion rate Andean crops land use agricultural sustainability food production displacement effect rebound effect cascade effect Geography Planning and Development TJ807-830 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law TD194-195 01 natural sciences Boom Chenopodium quinoa Renewable energy sources Agricultural economics 03 medical and health sciences GE1-350 0105 earth and related environmental sciences 030109 nutrition & dietetics Environmental effects of industries and plants Land use Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry Agricultural sustainability Environmental sciences Geography Agriculture business |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability, Vol 10, Iss 2, p 532 (2018) Sustainability; Volume 10; Issue 2; Pages: 532 |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| Popis: | Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) has gained prominence worldwide over recent years and suddenly Peru has emerged as a major player in the global quinoa market. This study aims to analyze the expansion of quinoa farming in Peru in the period 1995–2014 and to discuss the changes in land-use the country has experienced as a result of the boom in the global demand for quinoa. Two statistical approaches, principal component analysis (PCA) and exponential smoothing, were applied in the data analysis to explore the evolution of the quinoa boom in Peru by periods and to forecast what the acreage expansion rate would have been if the boom had not occurred. The results show that the quinoa boom was responsible for an increase of 43% in the number of hectares planted with quinoa in 2014, in relation to the number predicted if there had been no boom. This provoked an acceleration of production in traditional quinoa farming areas and the extension of this activity to new regions. The consequences are already apparent in the land-use changes seen in Peru, namely the: (i) displacement; (ii) rebound; and (iii) cascade effects. |
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