Figure 3: Quinoa Export Destinations As shown above through the tables and graphs, the increased demand for this grain has led to a spike in the value and volume of the transactions related to its market. Yet in addition to an increase in the figures, there has also been an interesting dynamic in the quinoa market structure since the late 1990’s, and that has to do with the immersion of new actors in the form of private firms seduced by the potential profits its market appears to offer. The graph below shows the evolution in the number of quinoa exporters between 1990 and 2004. Figure 4: Evolution of Quinoa Exporters between 1990 and 2004. *Source: (Laguna 2005, as in Ton 2006). The entry of these new private firms has dramatically changed the structure of the quinoa market as will be illustrated in the coming chapters. The ways in which the quinoa market has changed has serious implications for the quinoa farmers. The aim of this paper is to find out: do changes in the quinoa market structure mediate aspects of the farmers’ income”? “How
Figure 3: Quinoa Export Destinations As shown above through the tables and graphs, the increased demand for this grain has led to a spike in the value and volume of the transactions related to its market. Yet in addition to an increase in the figures, there has also been an interesting dynamic in the quinoa market structure since the late 1990’s, and that has to do with the immersion of new actors in the form of private firms seduced by the potential profits its market appears to offer. The graph below shows the evolution in the number of quinoa exporters between 1990 and 2004. Figure 4: Evolution of Quinoa Exporters between 1990 and 2004. *Source: (Laguna 2005, as in Ton 2006). The entry of these new private firms has dramatically changed the structure of the quinoa market as will be illustrated in the coming chapters. The ways in which the quinoa market has changed has serious implications for the quinoa farmers. The aim of this paper is to find out: “How do changes in the quinoa market structure mediate aspects of the farmers’ income”?
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