Price volatility and quinoa consumption among smallholder producers in the Andes

• Autores: Gamboa, Cindybell, Schuster, Monica, Schrevens, Eddie, Maertens, Miet
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2020
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de Trujillo
• Repositorio: Revista UNITRU - Scientia Agropecuaria
• Lenguaje: inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.revistas.unitru.edu.pe:article/2811
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.unitru.edu.pe/index.php/scientiaagrop/article/view/2811
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Farm-household model; food consumption; Peru; price elasticity; quinoa.

The recent attention to quinoa as a nutritious food is changing the way the crop is produced and consumed by smallholders in the Andes. Price spikes and increased volatility in international quinoa prices have created a concern about quinoa consumption among Andean farm-households. The farm-household theory was used to investigate how food price changes affect household consumption and production decisions. Theoretical predictions were applied to original survey data from a quinoa-producing region of Peru. Findings suggest that the global quinoa hype and consequent price spikes did not adversely affect the consumption of this nutritious food among quinoa producers.