42. Quinoa - is the United Nations' featured crop of 2013 bad for biodiversity?

Biodiversity

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 169-179

  Small, Ernest ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

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EID: 84884302477     PISSN: 14888386     EISSN: 21600651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14888386.2013.835551     Document Type: Article

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