Quinoa offers poor communities, living in harsh environments, options to improve their livelihoods, generate income, achieve food security and enjoy better nutrition and health. The IYQ can contribute in a unique way to attain these goals.

نشر بتاريخ 2012للمزيد

Quinoa is an outstanding grain for present and future generations. Due to its high nutritional value and crop characteristics, it is currently produced in at least 6 countries, and more than 70 countries are performing agronomical tests for its commercial production.

نشر بتاريخ 2012للمزيد

the IYQ is expected to be a catalyst for increased production and consumption of quinoa by focusing world attention on the role of quinoa's biodiversity and nutritional value in food security and poverty eradication, in support of the Millennium Development Goals.

نشر بتاريخ 2012للمزيد

The IYQ constitutes the first step in an ongoing process to focus world attention on the role that quinoa´s biodiversity and nutritional value play in providing food security and nutrition and in poverty eradication, in support of the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals including the Millennium Development Goals.

نشر بتاريخ 2012للمزيد

This technical report produced by PROINPA is an updated and detailed compilation of the nutritional benefits and agricultural versatility of quinoa; the expansion of the crop to other continents and showing that it is a crop with high potential to contribute to food security in various Regions worldwide, especially in those countries where the population does not have access to protein sources or where production conditions are limited by low humidity, reduced availability of inputs, and aridity.

نشر بتاريخ 2011للمزيد

This cookbook is a collection of typical dishes intended to help stimulate a greater appreciation for the vast potential of traditional products and introduce them to a much wider audience. In this sense, it is a valuable resource that we are confident will help Andean countries adopt mechanisms that make it possible to improve the food and nutritional security of the farming communities in the High Andes.

نشر بتاريخ 2010للمزيد

The quinoa is a food plant which was extensively cultivated in the Andean region by pre-Columbian cultures some 5 000 years ago and was used in the diet of the settlers both of the inter-Andean valleys. which are very cold high areas, and of the high plateaus. After maize, it has occupied the most prominent place among Andean grains.

نشر بتاريخ 1995للمزيد

La quinua es un cereal originario de los Andes peruanos. En la época del apogeo incaico era considerada un alimento sagrado, además de ser empleada para usos medicinales. En las fiestas religiosas la quinua se ofrecía al dios Sol en una fuente de oro y cada año era el mismo Inca quien se encargaba de iniciar la siembra en una importante ceremonia.

نشر بتاريخ 2013للمزيد

El recetario con preparaciones a base de quinua se elaboró con la finalidad de que las madres o responsables de la alimentación familiar cuenten con alternativas e información clara y pertinente acerca de la elaboración de preparaciones nutritivas, saludables, económicas, variadas y adecuadas a la necesidades de una familia integrada por cuatro miembros.

نشر بتاريخ 2012للمزيد