Worldwide evaluations of quinoa—biodiversity and food security under climate change pressures: Advances and perspectives [Editorial]

Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) is an Andean herbaceous crop that has attracted increasing interest in recent years thanks to its ecophysiological behavior and the nutritional characteristics of its seeds. The quinoa boom followed the celebration of the International Year of Quinoa in 2013 by the United Nations (FAO), when numerous initiatives were implemented to spread the positive characteristics that make quinoa a suitable crop with which to fight world hunger. In this Special Issue, we wanted to summarize the state of the art and the main research activities that are currently underway in different parts of the world.