Ament describes a Wild West scenario where maca farmers are approached with suitcases full of money, while giant sacks of maca are gleefully loaded into trucks. Law enforcement is absent from the ...

Maca, a nutritious and medicinal root cultivated in the Peruvian Andes, is currently the object of a trade fever, in which market prices have risen to stratospheric levels as a result of unprecedented ...

Natural-products companies based in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere have steadily built a market for maca, a small turnip-like root that grows in high mountain areas, and that is believed to give a ...

The maca root has been cultivated in Peru for thousands of years. But now booming global demand for its use as a supplement that is said to increase energy is boosting prices and disrupting the small ...

Peru is a landscape that is proclaimed for being a source of diverse, high-quality foods. Maca, a root vegetable native to South America, has been grown and cultivated in the Andes mountains of Peru ...

LIMA, Peru — Frogs from Peru’s Lake Titicaca are the main ingredient in a juice blend that some Andean cultures believe has the power to cure asthma, bronchitis, sluggishness and a low sex drive. To ...