Small scale farmers tending their tomato plants. - - Special Programme for Food Security Fruit and Vegetable Processing: ECU/98/30. The aim of this Special Programme for Food Security is to improve the level of a poor Afro-Ecuadorian community in the dry rural valleys of Ecuador, through the establishment of a micro-enterprise for fruit and vegetable conservation and processing, which will generate job opportunities, reduce post-harvest losses and make available safe processed fruit and vegetable products.A women's group in the area, which has benefited from the project has taken the initiative to undertake productive projects to improve their precarious situation and they are now producing guava jam.