Food for nourishment, food for empowerment

One book empowered an entire community.

The quest began as a desire to showcase the vast agrobiodiversity of the Andean region and the environmental value of the extraordinary chain of mountains that rise along the western coast of South America. Our goal was to bring global attention to the importance of this unique center of food domestication that helps ensure planetary food security.

As an international agriculture research center, the natural course of action was to publish a book.