Presented at: GSEF2016 Montreal

Organisation: Movimiento de Economia Social y Solidaria del Ecuador (SSE organization)

Date: September 7, 2016

Presenter: Ms.Angeles Carrion Abad (Promoter)

Contacts: ma18angelesca@gmail.com

Summary:

Fruit farmers, members of the MESSE (Movement for the Social and Solidarity Economy of Ecuador), market their produce through the Instituto Proalimentos, that buy the fruit in order to distribute it among the boys and girls who attend public schools. Instituto Proalimentos buys at a fair price and subsidizes transport and distribution to the supplying organizations. In doing so, they guarantee the food sovereignty of the children through the consumption of healthy products coming from the hands of farmer families. They also improve the income of farmer families by fostering the development of producer organizations and networks and by promoting equity between rural and urban areas through the generation of fair and solidarity food distribution and marketing systems that prevent monopolistic practices with food products. Supplier organizations, in turn, generate local employment for fruit collection and cleaning. Alliances with local governments are formed in order for them to participate in the project and establish synergies at work. Thus, a renewed faith of the supplying organisations towards the State is also fostered.