Ecuador

Promoting local knowledge

The strategic goal of our Ecuador programme is to support self-administered, sustainable development of the villages SWISSAID is working with. Specifically, our priorities are:

Supporting local knowledge
Improving the basic food supply situation with sustainable, organic farming
Managing natural resources
Improving the economic and social situation of women
Developing alternative economic and social structures

We support projects in the following areas:

Organic farming
Sustainable use of soil, forests and water
Supporting women

No water without environmental protection

The farming families in the Andes suffer from hunger because their small fields produce too little. Moderate ecological cultivation techniques, irrigation and the preservation of the highland plains will help to create a better future.

Nothing works without water

In one of the poorest areas of Ecuador, in parts of the province of Chimborazo, the peasant farmers with SWISSAID's help are creating water supplies and turning to mixed cultures instead of monocultures.