Argentina: Passionate about quinoa, agronomist Daniel Bertero wants it to become food that anyone can buy

Quinoa is a cereal whose global consumption is on the rise. In recent decades, the growing demand for healthy foods has favored the expansion of this crop outside the Andean region, its place of origin. This gave it a great boost and today it is considered key to food security, not only because of its nutritional value, but also because of its tolerance to adverse environmental conditions such as drought and salinity. After that promising paragraph, a report from the news site On Earth clarified that, however, quinoa is "a crop that is not accessible to the majority of the population." Daniel Bertero, professor of the Plant Production Chair of the Faculty of Agronomy of the UBA (FAUBA), analyzed with this medium the prospects for it to become an accessible crop for consumers. According to the specialist, “until the 1980s, quinoa was not known outside of Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador, its core area. Its nutritional properties were known, but it was not widely consumed even within that ...