Promoting quinoa in Morocco

Abstract

This brief is addressed to policy makers in the Kingdom of Morocco and it is divided into three sections. The first reveals the importance of Quinoa as a super crop adapted to marginal and dry environments to improve the livelihood of disadvantaged smallholder farmers in Morocco. The second highlights what a Moroccan-Canadian collaboration realized to upgrade the Quinoa value chain in the country, and the third section summarizes the main steps to be undertaken to mainstream the development of Quinoa at the national level.