Marielle Dubbeling, Jesús Loor Bravo & Margarita Llerna Cepeda

In: UA Magazine 4 - Integration of UPA in urban planning

The Municipality of Quito is challenged by demands to eradicate urban poverty, to improve the urban environment and to promote a participatory style of governance. Urban agriculture is a potential source of food, income and employment, and is part of a multifunctional use of land, and therefore has an important and strategic role to play in this development. By way of a participatory city consultation on urban agriculture, the municipality embarked upon a process of institutionalising urban agriculture.