Alan Adams is a former Peace Corps Volunteer currently collaborating as a volunteer consultant for Mushuk Yuyay, a community development organization in the Ecuatorian Andes.
After centuries of colonization and decades of scientific marginalization, an indigenous organization leads global quinoa research dialogue. By Alan Adams with Nicolás Pichazaca In June 2025, the world’s leading quinoa researchers, scientists, and producers will gather not in a modern conference center or university campus, but in the ancestral homeland of the Kañari people in […]
Lino Pichasaca and I walked the rough footpaths, the chakiñanes in Kichwa, around the Hacienda Guantug in the province of Cañar, Ecuador. It was 1967, and the Ecuadorian agrarian reform was getting started. Leaders like Lino saw great possibilities and huge obstacles.
“Superheroes don’t wear capes. They wear ponchos and sombreros.” The Andean phrase is being invoked once again in Ecuador.
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