Founded in 2013 by two American volunteers, Puente a la Salud Comunitaria is an NGO that was initially dedicated to improving eating habits and reintroducing amaranth into the local diet because of its nutritional richness and resilience to climate conditions. The organisation currently has some thirty employees and is active in two regions. Its three main areas of focus are: promoting the agroecological production and consumption of amaranth, creating micro-businesses for processing products and regional amaranth networks to aggregate the added value of amaranth, and helping producers become integrated into the market by influencing public policy.
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