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“ New Life” - recovering and commercializing native Andean Tubers

“ New Life” - recovering and commercializing native Andean Tubers.

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“ New Life” - recovering and commercializing native Andean Tubers

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  1. “New Life” - recovering and commercializing native Andean Tubers

  2. 2001 – 2003, Nueva Vida (New Life) executed the project “Recovery of native Andean agricultural crops in order to improve food security and prevent soil erosion” funded by the Small Grants Program from the Global Environment Fund (GEF)

  3. The project is located in the communities of LupaxiConvalecencia, Cintaguzo y Pulucate Alto, in the Chimborazo Province, located in the center of the Ecuadorian Andes.

  4. Themainresults of theprojectwhere: • Strenghtening of the local organization • Recovery of local agrbiodiversity (AndeanTubersmainly) • Recovery of soil

  5. Tubers (oca, mashuaand melloco) are traditional Andean products are not very much consumed by local people anymore. Young people hardly know tubers, in spite of their important nutritional value. In order to promote it´s consumption New Life produced jam and tuber jam filled chocolates

  6. Mashua is a tuber which has a relatively strong taste and is know to be an aphrodisiac. It is also used as medicine against prostate, kidney and liver infections. Melloco is high in protein, calcium and carotene. Oca is used as a substitute and complement of a regular potato because of its greater resistance to local plagues.

  7. In 2007, Nueva Vida won a SEED Award for Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Development In 2007, Nueva Vida won one of five global 2007 SEED Awards for Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Development for their work to diversify food production improve local food security, prevent soil erosion, empower local communities (especially women) and generate additional incomes. The first picture shows Teresa Pagalo, leader of Nueva Vida receiving the SEED Award.

  8. The Seed Initiative and USAID have provided a primary implementation budget for jam production.

  9. Promoting the marmalades: participation in local fairs

  10. Thankstothesupport of a local graphicdesigner Nueva Vida has a labelfortheirproducts…

  11. In 2008, a mission from the United Nations Volunteer Program and “Senior Italia” came to help Nueva Vida The purpose of this mission was to help Nueva Vida improve the soil´s quality and productivity and help them develop a market chain

  12. In 2009, Kraft Foods sent a mission to Riobamba to work with Nueva Vida From August 24th to September 4th 2009, Kraft Foods along with UNV and the SGP sent a mission to worked with Nueva Vida The mission was dedicated to teach them basic principles of food hygiene and good manufacturing practices, focused in the improvement of their current making process of tuber marmalades, and also teach them about new products or processes related to chocolate making, which they could apply in the future.

  13. The jam production process During the two week mission, Nueva Vida received trainings on the process of making tuber jams: cleaning of mashua, the boiling process and the grinding/pureeing of mashua and addition of sugar & lemon juice.

  14. Improving the quality of the production Posters on food hygiene and GMP’s in production area. Training on pH and Brix measurements, using pH paper and refractometer which were donated to Nueva Vida by Kraft Foods Munich Chemistry department.

  15. Filled chocolate production Melting chocolate in a water bath – Hand tempering of chocolate. Hand tempering exercise. Chocolate shell making and depositing of tuber filling

  16. The marmalade

  17. Marmalades and chocolates

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