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ECUADOR, 2025. Feeding the families chickens

09 July 2025. El Cercado, Ecuador. Granddaughter of María Carmen Karanqui Liquinchana (54), president of the women’s savings group, feeds the family’s chickens and hens. Through daily tasks like these, younger generations learn to care for animals and maintain the traditional knowledge that sustains food security and cultural identity in Cotacachi.

07/09/2025

Country or Territory Ecuador

Related URL Related FAO Feature Story: https://www.fao.org/newsroom/story/secrets-of-the-andean-chakras/en

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Background Information Kichwa women and their ancestral agricultural knowledge have sustained food security in Ecuador’s highlands for centuries. Their farms, known as chakra, were recognized in 2023 by FAO as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS). Indigenous women like Magdalena are seed guardians, preserving native maize varieties and passing this knowledge to her daughter Verónica.

Climate change-related droughts, floods and pests threaten this system, but with FAO’s support, organizations like UNORCAC work with Kichwa communities to strengthen resilience through the use and exchange of native seeds.