Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum)

Dear FSN Forum team,

Please find attached Heifer Ecuador’s submission in response to the call for best practices in transforming food systems to achieve healthy and affordable diets, detailing lessons on food systems transformation from the Future of Food program that is expanding agroecology to reach low-income urban families.

More information is available here:

• In the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Farmers in Ecuador Innovate a Whole New Food System: https://www.heifer.org/blog/faced-with-the-covid-19-pandemic-farmers-in-ecuador-innovate-a-whole-new-food-system.html
• Why the City of Quito is Partnering with Heifer Ecuador During the Pandemic and Beyond: https://www.heifer.org/blog/why-the-city-of-quito-is-partnering-with-heifer-ecuador-during-the-pandemic-and-beyond.html
• Heifer Ecuador: https://www.heifer-ecuador.org and https://www.heifer.org/ecuador

Please don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions or requests for further clarifications.

Best,

Chris Coxon