The transition of maca from neglect to market prominence: lessons for improving use strategies and market chains of minor crops
Maca is an edible root crop of the crucifer family endemic to the Puna of the high Andes in Central Peru around Lake Junin, a chilly plateau at 4000 m altitude. Grown in the late 1980s exclusively in its native area, on no more than 50 ha, maca has experienced over the last years a meteoric rise fro...
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2009
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/104787 |
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