30-year experience as Researcher, Administrator and Director of agricultural research and innovation projects in agroecosystems of the Sierra and Ecuadorian Amazon. Author and co-author of at least 40 technical and scientific publications (https: //scholar.google.escitationsuser=c0Ew8VUAAAAJ&hl=es) and member of multidisciplinary scientific teams that have generated and transferred technologies to improve agroforestry and agro-industrial production systems in addition to strengthening of the value chain of crops important for family farming, circular economy, conservation of natural resources, security and food sovereignty of the country.