Our initiative is inspired in the indigenous community of Caliata, located in the Central Highlands of Ecuador. Caliata, as many indigenous communities, is experiencing the overlapping effects of outmigration, population aging, poverty, and the feminization agriculture. However, Caliata –a system of ancient cultivation terraces– is also a place of agroecological resilience, community agency, high biodiversity, ecological knowledge, culture and language. While the future of the community seems compromised, Caliata has answers to current global challenges, such as food insecurity and soil fertility depletion.
