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DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute’s Program on Latin America and the Carib
 bean presents Emma McDonell\, Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee\, Cha
 ttanooga.This talk traces the social\, ecological\, technological and poli
 tical work that went into transforming a humble Andean grain into a develo
 pment miracle crop and also highlights that project’s unintended consequen
 ces. Based in a longitudinal ethnography centered around Puno\, Perú\, the
  main quinoa production area in the world’s chief quinoa exporting country
 \, this research shows how even efforts based in the best of intentions—co
 unteracting the homogenization of global food supply\, empowering small-sc
 ale farmers\, revaluing local food cultures\, and adapting agricultural sy
 stems to climate change—can generate new kinds of oppression. At a time wh
 en so-called forgotten foods are increasingly positioned as sustainable de
 velopment tools\, quinoa’s story offers a cautionary tale of fleeting bene
 fits and ambivalent results.This event is co-sponsored by the Anthropology
  Department.Emma McDonell is assistant professor of anthropology at the Un
 iversity of Tennessee\, Chattanooga and author of The Quinoa Bust: The Mak
 ing and Unmaking of an Andean Miracle Crop (University of California Press
 \, 2025) and Critical Approaches to Superfoods (Bloomsbury\, 2020).
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SUMMARY:The Quinoa Bust: The Making and Unmaking of an Andean Miracle Crop
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<div>The Moynihan Institute’s Program on Latin
  America and the Caribbean presents Emma McDonell\, Ph.D. from the Univers
 ity of Tennessee\, Chattanooga.</div><div><br></div><div><p>This talk trac
 es the social\, ecological\, technological and political work that went in
 to transforming a humble Andean grain into a development miracle crop and 
 also highlights that project’s unintended consequences. Based in a longitu
 dinal ethnography centered around Puno\, Perú\, the main quinoa production
  area in the world’s chief quinoa exporting country\, this research shows 
 how even efforts based in the best of intentions—counteracting the homogen
 ization of global food supply\, empowering small-scale farmers\, revaluing
  local food cultures\, and adapting agricultural systems to climate change
 —can generate new kinds of oppression. At a time when so-called forgotten 
 foods are increasingly positioned as sustainable development tools\, quino
 a’s story offers a cautionary tale of fleeting benefits and ambivalent res
 ults.</p><p>This event is co-sponsored by the Anthropology Department.<spa
 n style="background-color: rgba(0\, 0\, 0\, 0)\; color: inherit\; font-fam
 ily: inherit\; font-size: inherit\; text-align: inherit\; text-transform: 
 inherit\; word-spacing: normal\; caret-color: auto\; white-space: inherit"
 ></span></p></div><p><strong>Emma McDonell</strong> is assistant professor
  of anthropology at the University of Tennessee\, Chattanooga and author o
 f <em>The Quinoa Bust: The Making and Unmaking of an Andean Miracle Crop</
 em> (University of California Press\, 2025) and <em>Critical Approaches to
  Superfoods</em> (Bloomsbury\, 2020).<br></p>
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