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Accelerating the Sustainable Transformation of Ecuadorian Banana Industry (Ecuador Green Footprint Project)

Start Date: 10/06/2026
End Date: 30/06/2029

Description

The project seeks to promote the sustainable transformation of Ecuador's banana industry by reducing its environmental footprint and ensuring compliance with international sustainability standards. It strengthens institutional and policy frameworks, improves national systems for monitoring, reporting, and verifying carbon and water footprints, and builds capacities for the adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices across the value chain.

Action scope

National

Evaluated

No

Stage

Development-design

Temporalidad

Short-term

Number of Years

3 - Year -s

Related elements

Budget in USD

Budget in USD
$6,632,443.00
Counterpart Budget
$23,284,126.00
Total Budget
$29,916,569.00
Annual Average Budget
$9,972,190.00

Institutions

Institutions Institutions rols
GEF: Global Environment Facility Financing-investor
FAO: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Execution and operation
Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of Ecuador Execution and operation
MAATE: Ministry of Environment, Water and Ecological Transition (Ecuador) Technical assistance

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