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During the last decades, emerging global commodity chains have been re-shaping local growth and shrinkage processes, by linking far away consumers and producers. Regional transformations are complex and long-term phenomenon lead by the interplay of forces acting from and at different scales. This paper explores the teleconnections’ local implications embedded within the Southern Bolivian Altiplano transition, from being a remote rural area of subsistence farming to a global leading quinoa cropping market driven territory. The essay identifies lessons that are likely to be relevant for increasing adaptive capacity, fostering sustainability solutions, avoiding unsustainability lock-ins by the relationship between cereal market at the national scale, an uncontrolled growth of a specific crop (quinoa) and community actions in the Southern Bolivian Altiplano.
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Minucci, G. (2018). Social–Ecological Implications of the Quinoa Market Teleconnections: Intervention Criteria on the Southern Bolivian Altiplano. In: Petrillo, A., Bellaviti, P. (eds) Sustainable Urban Development and Globalization. Research for Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61988-0_28
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