OUR WORK
Grounded in community-based partnership, our initiative is currently promoting six interrelated projects that support Caliata in thriving as an agro-community and continuing to share their ways of knowing for generations to come. We welcome you to learn more about the people of Caliata and how their way of life offers solutions to some of global society’s most pressing challenges.
RESEARCH & PROJECTS
The Caliata Initiative is an opportunity to simultaneously support an important community and educate the world through media, research, and community engagement.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
LITERATURE
Agroecological Research from Caliata
Work with agro-ecology and permaculture principles to revitalize and promote the traditional ecological knowledge and biodiversity of Caliata.
Mini documentary
Caliata: A Window to the Memory
The film is “a window to the memory” and to the agri-food system of the Kichwa-Puruwá people of Ecuador.
ONGOING PROJECTS
Agroecology
Enhancement and Conservation
Work with agro-ecology and permaculture principles to revitalize and promote the traditional ecological knowledge and biodiversity of Caliata.
TERRACE ARCHAEOLOGY
Restoration and preservation of
pre-Columbian cultivation terraces
Through combined systematic ecological and archaeological methods, we aim to understand Caliata’s terracing structure, physical and agroecological …
NUTRITION
Nutrition improvement through the
promotion of cultural diets
Assuring that the nutrition of families in Caliata remains remarkable by systematizing the ancestral food culture and preparing nutritious dishes for the households, while promoting their healthy lifestyles in neighboring communities.
FUTURE PROJECTS
Fair Trade
Creation of the “Caliata brand” and its added values.
A 79% of the indigenous peoples of Ecuador live in the rural sector, characterized by an increasing feminization of agriculture and poverty.
OUR book
Caliata: Stories of the Past, Guide to the Future
Based on the premise that most of the written books obey the drive of disseminating ideas, and that although they usually have ulterior purposes (sharing, giving, indoctrinating, immortalizing, etc.), a book is par excellence a physical and symbolic artifact of communication.
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