This project focuses on food security and malnutrition among students around Cuenca, Ecuador, and provides recommendations on how to alleviate these problems by providing guidelines for expanding and improving school gardens. After extensive research and interviews with subject matter experts, the project team formed six major recommendations to improve the diversity and nutrition of the plants in school gardens. These recommendations focus on growing native plants, producing a variety of different crop types, practicing water conservation, implementing composting methods, growing medicinal herbs, and maintaining a management system. These recommendations, if applied and sustained over time, are meant to help alleviate malnutrition and food insecurity for students in the region.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Burnham, William V.
• Whitney, Adrienne
• Flaherty, Patrick J.
• Davis, Anne F.

Subject

• Health
• Environment
• Learning
• Sustainability
• Community
• Food
• Well-Being

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 6091
• E-project-031821-163441

Palabra Clave

• Education
• Food Insecurity
• Nutrition
• Garden
• Ecuador
• School

Advisor

• Miller, Fabienne
• Elgert, Laureen

Year

• 2021

Center

• Cuenca, Ecuador Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• The Castle Foundation

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 1 - No Poverty
• 2 - Zero Hunger
• 3 - Good Health and Well-being
• 4 - Quality Education
• 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production

Date created

• 2021-03-18

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Última modificación

• 2023-09-08