The main objective of this case study is to analyze the effect that a significant technological innovation in quinoa … processing has had on the productivity of companies devoted to this activity and the impact of such an innovation on the growth … and organization of the quinoa cluster in Bolivia, and its possible effects on the future. The study will explain how the …

Quinoa is considered a strategic crop because it is well adapted to the adverse abiotic conditions of the Bolivian … Altiplano; however, the average yield is low. Previous studies have demonstrated that quinoa yield would increase with deficit … irrigation technology. Nevertheless, to irrigate quinoa is not a normal practice in the farming systems of the Altiplano. This …

water use from the San Geronimo River creates two mutually exclusive projects, lithium mining and quinoa crop with … opportunity cost of not conducting the quinoa irrigation project and reducing the uncertainty of the model parameters, the net …