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ECUADOR, 2025. Cooking maize tortillas on the tiesto

10 July 2025. Santa Bárbara, Ecuador. Luz María Alta Perugachi, member of the Women’s Committee of UNORCAC (Union of Peasant and Indigenous Organizations of Cotacachi), places maize tortillas on the tiesto, a traditional clay cooking vessel. The tortillas are made with maize flour she harvests and mills herself as part of her community-based agro-tourism and food sovereignty project.

07/10/2025

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.