Ecuador: The Urban Gardens Where Gender and Climate Justice Grow
Up in the lung-busting altitudes of Quito, Ecuador’s capital city, 71-year-old Maria Achiña and 70-year-old Alegria Irua are busy digging up soil
By PeterYeung
Nola
Mar 16, 2026
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While the green trend for city-grown food is more recent, Quito’s urban agriculture project dates back decades to Ecuador’s economic crisis in the 1990s, which saw a switch of currency from the sucre to the dollar, instantly devaluing local salaries and forcing many into food insecurity. Some 48% of the population were then living below the poverty line.
“Urban agriculture was our strategy to create access to food,” says Dueñas.
Over the years, more than 4,000 allotments have been created: urban farming on roof terraces, greenhouses within the city center, larger farms on the outskirts of Quito, peri-urban and rural farms that supply inner-city residents.
The urban gardens produce more than 1.95 million kilograms of organic food per year – about 4.3 million pounds. Many of the gardeners sell their organically-grown food in over a dozen weekly city markets known as “bioferias” that provide a sales point for producers.
Agostina Beatriz Chicaiza, 69, and Maria Gladys Chicaiza, 52, run a farm together in the suburbs of Quito. The pair earns up to $200 per week by cultivating organic crops like broccoli, cauliflower, corn and potatoes, which are sold at a bioferia in the city.
Source: https://cityfarmer.info/ecuador-the-urban-gardens-where-gender-and-climate-justice-grow/
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