How quinoa became a superfood—and disrupted Andean farming

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When the world decided a humble Andean staple was a 'superfood,' it upended an entire ecosystem. Traditional rotational farming was abandoned to maximize quinoa output, inadvertently devastating the local soil quality just to feed international salad bars.

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