"A vision is like a path that helps us to go through uncertainty. It is a feasible utopia, if we put our minds to it and collaborate with multiple actors. Quito has several instruments of public food policy, but having a vision built by the Covenant would help us build a path of food change."

" I believe in the rights of life and justice from the point of view of food. My mission is to raise awareness to understand the food system as an opportunity for wealth, equality, governance, and resilience."

"The fact that this long-term vision is not raised from a governmental body, contributes to its continuity, since these tend to vary depending on the administration on duty. I can project my contribution in connecting this proposal with teachers or students from high schools in the south of Quito who can become agents of change for their homes and institutions and promote healthy nutrition.

"Everything flows from a clear vision. Without an ambitious vision, we are doomed to repeat what we have always done and close ourselves from innovation. With a clear place-based vision and pathways, it is easier to coordinate with other stakeholders and identify how we each contribute to the realisation of our common vision."

"The agri-food system in Quito is the foundation stone of the city's sustainable development. The system can become a key strategy in building the city's urban resilience. For me, Quito is the image of the city's cultural, social and biological diversity."

"We hope that our contribution, that of the team of the Minga por la Pachamama, will orient us with a vision of experiential and intergenerational learning. In addition, our desire is to think about how the actions proposed can have greater visibility within the community as well as amplify this voice in various spaces of communication."

"I think that the opportunity to think and dream of a sustainable food system for Quito, based on the experience and knowledge of those who came together for this proposal, from many areas of scientific knowledge and ancestral wisdom, can ensure a system that works and is replicable in other cities and spaces."

"I would like to contribute with my participation in the strengthening of these networks for the construction of the Food Vision and its practical implementation that will allow to crystallize the efforts that have been made in the last years in food matters for Quito."

"The FSVP is an opportunity to strengthen the relation between many actors in the food system, continuing in this challenge of a sustainable and inclusive local food system for Quito."

"Eating is a political act, therefore, it implies a collective responsibility in which we need to know where food comes from, how it is produced, who makes it, how to prepare it, what relationships exist in that journey of these products that go from the earth to the plate.In this process we can understand why citizens need to organize themselves, to ensure that purchasing decisions are a conscious and informed act. We lose this when the decision is an advertising result, and difficult to access because modernity promotes deserts of food."

"I firmly believe that by building a joint vision, we generate opportunities. The use of technology - many times limited - must be promoted from public policy, to promote development from organizations and the private sector, to become a tool that connects the demand for quality food with agro-ecological production, so that it reaches more people in various territories."

"I hope to contribute from my profession (nutrition) and my passion (food) the key elements both technical and cultural in the formation of a green city in every sense, and more specifically in a city without malnutrition (neither by deficiency nor excess) thanks to the quality, availability and accessibility of sustainable food to all inhabitants of Quito."

Ronnie Lizano - Director of the Research Group GRICAM

"It is important to build this vision because historically Quito has been planned as a City, excluding a big part of the south population such as green spaces, security, health services access and healthy food spaces. In South Quito, there are many issues that need to be visible for the entire population to take actions with local administrations."