Approach
To support a transition to sustainable and deforestation-free value chains in Ecuador, it is necessary to provide tools and approaches to prepare the key actors in the value chain – including the public and private sector – and to promote the formalisation of relevant value chains. The SAFE project supports Ecuador in these processes. To this end, SAFE cooperates at national level with the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, the Ministry of Environment, Water and Ecological Transition, and the Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries. At the same time, work is being carried out with private sector actors, especially export companies and their associations. At local level, actions are concentrated in the provinces of Sucumbíos and Orellana, in the northern Amazon region of Ecuador, together with local governments and cocoa and coffee producer organisations.