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SUSTAIN-ANDE. Food Sustainability and New Ecosocial Designs for the Andes of Ecuador

Ecuador

Status

Implementation

Aid type

Project-type interventions

Ecuador


Location

-

€ 2,000,000
Committed
€ 0
Used

Description

The "SUSTAIN-ANDE. Food Sustainability and New Ecosocial Designs for the Ecuadorian Andes" project aims to promote sustainable food production in fragile and strategic ecosystems for the country by encouraging agroecological practices that protect and enhance natural resources, provide quality food in areas with high malnutrition rates, and improve the income of small farmers by linking them to local short supply chains. This is a three-year initiative led by Caritas Italiana (project leader) in partnership with COSPE, Caritas Ecuador, and SEDAL. In Ecuador, rural areas, despite the agricultural modernization of the 1980s, continue to register the highest poverty levels (43%) and represent the main emigration zones of the country. The distortions of the globalized market penalize local farmers, often unable to cover production costs, leading to food insecurity. Malnutrition, especially among children, is a serious problem, and Ecuador is the second country in the region for the rate of chronic malnutrition. Ecuadorian economic policies still fail to integrate and enhance the vast local biodiversity and continue to focus on traditional and unsustainable models that cause deforestation (2% annually), loss of biodiversity, water pollution, soil erosion, and desertification, exacerbated by climate change. However, new laws assign responsibility for managing protected areas to the MAATE and local governments. SUSTAIN-ANDE aims to intervene at the political, cultural, and technical-operational levels to promote the agroecological transformation of production systems and communities, supporting decentralized government policies sensitive to biodiversity and climate resilience. It introduces new agricultural practices (SDG 2.3/.4; 6.6), food culture education to improve the health of women, minors, and adults, and production policies (SDG 8.2/.3/.4) to make agriculture sustainable and effective (SDG 12.2 and 15.4). The project will operate in the Andean provinces of Pichincha, Carchi, Imbabura, Chimborazo, and Bolivar. The goal is to promote the agroecological transformation of local food systems with principles of inclusivity, equity, climate change resilience, food justice, and fostering proximity between producers and consumers. The strategy includes three intervention axes: 1. Promotion of Inclusive, Accessible, and Sustainable Rural Development: Focused on agroecological principles and knowledge exchanges, valuing the role of women, Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), and local practices (43042 OECD DAC). 2. Advocacy and Training Actions: To enhance the skills of local stakeholders and communities (43072 OECD DAC) on food security, accessing nutritional education pathways, and improving the consumption of nutritionally adequate foods produced in agroecological systems for the most vulnerable populations (especially girls, women, youth, disabled, migrants). 3. Strengthening Proximity Trade Relationships: Between producers, public actors, commercial entities, and local consumers, fostering collaborations based on trust, social networks, and knowledge exchange (31191 OECD DAC). SUSTAIN-ANDE aims to converge the processes that COSPE-SEDAL are developing in Carchi, Pichincha, and Imbabura with those of Caritas Ecuador in Chimborazo and Bolivar, generating an integrated intervention model based on climate resilience, ecological connectivity, and social cohesion. Women's empowerment will be a central aspect of promoting sustainable food systems. The creation of new opportunities will positively impact the rooting of new generations. read more close
Year Committed Used
2025 € 2,000,000 € 0

Agency

Type Name Channel code
Government AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development 11000

Channel reported

Type Name Channel code
National NGO CARITAS ITALIANA 22000

Project data

  • IATI IdentifierXM-DAC-6-4-013244-08-9
  • AID013244/08/9
  • Planned start 2025/05/01
  • Planned End 2028/04/30
  • Actual start -
  • Actual end -
  • Bi/Multilateral Bilateral
  • Status Implementation
  • Tied status Tied

Sectors

  • 31191 - Agricultural services 21.0%
  • 43042 - Rural development 55.0%
  • 43072 - Household food security programmes 24.0%

Policy markers

  • Gender Equality principal objective
  • Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) not targeted
  • Disability not targeted
  • Nutrition principal objective
  • Aid to Environment significant objective
  • Participatory Development/Good Governance not targeted
  • Trade Development significant objective
  • Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity significant objective
  • Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Framework Convention on Climate Change - Mitigation significant objective
  • Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Framework Convention on Climate Change - Adaptation principal objective
  • Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Convention to Combat Desertification not targeted
  • Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (RMNCH) significant objective

SDGs

  • 12.2 - By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources
  • 12.a - Support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production
  • 2.3 - By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment
  • 2.4 - By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality
  • 2.a - Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular least developed countries
  • 6.6 - By 2020, protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes
  • 8.2 - Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors
  • 8.3 - Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services
  • 8.4 - Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production, with developed countries taking the lead
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