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Pachamama Goes Organic |
| Section: CULTURE / PEOPLES |
| Author: Teo Ballvé |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/2007 |
| Size: 2,574 Words, 16,261 Characters |
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The elevator is broken in Bolivia’s Ministry of Campesino and Agricultural Affairs, so together with Arturo Mamani Poma and Salustiano Vargas Villca, I walk up to the sixth floor, where we find a small, dark office with three desks, a few computers, and a conference table. Mamani and Vargas, both members of the National Association of Quinoa Producers (Anapqui), have come to the La Paz office to request a loan to build a quinoa-processing plant.
I had met them a week earlier in Llica, a town in the southern part of Bolivia’s altiplano, the vast highland plains where most of the country’s quinoa is grown. They invited me to attend the meeting, hoping my presence as a foreigner would help them make their case. We sit down, and Mamani and Vargas wait anxiously for the government represent...
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...nt on Andean Food Crop,” press release, RAFI/ ANAPQUI/ OXFAM-UK, June 18, 1997.
4) “ALBA-TCP, mucho más que un acuerdo commercial,” Bolpress, April 29, 2007.
©NACLA Report on the Americas, Volume 40 Number 4 (July/August 2007). This article originated from a winning proposal for the AVINA Investigative Journalism Grant. The AVINA Foundation assumes no responsibility for its contents.
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