Urban Farm DB
← Research catalogue
Database research record2019·Ecuador (Quito)

How the municipality of Quito supports vulnerable city dwellers through urban agriculture

Alexandra Rodríguez Dueñas

DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)

Urban Farm DB summary

Quito’s Participatory Urban Agriculture Project (AGRUPAR), launched in 2002, supports vulnerable populations by providing technical assistance, capacity building, and microcredit for urban farming, aiming for food security and employment. While integrated into local government and recognized with the Future Policy Silver Award 2018, the program faces significant challenges including administrative changes, budget cuts, and restrictive land-use legislation.

Extracted facts

8 facts

Only numbers and their conditions are stored, as structured data — never the source's own sentences. Metric and condition names stay in English, as coded.

  • 4,500 people

    farmers reached annually(agrupar program)

    Social
    region
    Quito, Ecuador
    year
    2019
    method
    "AGRUPAR has reached 4,500 vulnerable urban, peri-urban and rural farmers annually, covering 94% of the district"
  • 960,000 kg

    annual food production(agrupar program)

    Yield
    region
    Quito, Ecuador
    year
    2019
    method
    from the article's boxed "Key figures": "Yearly production of more than 960,000 kg of food products" (body text elsewhere states "more than 1,200 kg", likely a PDF text-extraction artifact of the same figure)
  • 21,000 people

    people trained total(agrupar program)

    Social
    region
    Quito, Ecuador
    year
    2019
    method
    "capacitated and supported more than 21,000 people... through more than 16,000 training sessions and 82,000 cases of technical assistance"
  • 84 %

    female participation share(agrupar program)

    Social
    region
    Quito, Ecuador
    year
    2019
    method
    "of which 84% were women"
  • 4,400

    gardens created(agrupar program)

    Design
    region
    Quito, Ecuador
    year
    2019
    method
    "enabled the creation of 4,400 gardens covering 40 hectares of the DMQ"; cumulative over 17 years since 2002
  • 40 ha

    cultivated area(agrupar program)

    Design
    region
    Quito, Ecuador
    year
    2019
  • 283,336 usd

    annual budget(agrupar program)

    Economics
    region
    Quito, Ecuador
    year
    2018
    method
    "The 2018 budget was US$283,336, in addition to US$27,000 of its self-management fund"
  • 350,000 usd

    bioferia annual revenue(agrupar program)

    Economics
    region
    Quito, Ecuador
    year
    2019
    method
    "105 types of organic food are sold, generating US$350,000 a year" across 15 weekly/biweekly bioferias

Direction of conclusions

Each author conclusion is recorded only as a coded direction per topic. Read the original for the conclusion itself.

  • Food securitySupportsWith caveats
  • Economic viabilitySupportsWith caveats
  • Policy and governanceSupportsWith caveats
Open the original source ↗