Another student who expressed his opinion about resilient food systems was Julián Bermeo, from the Delia Zapata school in Bogotá: “ With this experience the whole school can learn and reflect on the things we are doing or not doing in relation to healthy eating and caring for the environment. We can also raise awareness about caring for water.”

For systemic changes to start happening and not stop, those who execute them need to be oriented towards the future. We could perceive this orientation in the students who have participated in the space of co-creation of Como with Eco.

“I am interested in participating in an environmental project because I think I can do something more for this society, not only as a person but also by helping the environment. We must know where food comes from, who grows it and how. We must know this for our own good,” said Carlos Barbosa, from the Kimy Pernía School.

“It is important to know where food comes from because it is what we eat every day, and if we have no idea what we are eating, we do not know what we are doing for our body. It is important to do these projects because it encourages young people to take leadership to do very important things”, Jaren Sofía Rodríguez told us.

The needs of our planet are the needs of our future as a species, and a healthy and coherent diet is the protagonist in any encouraging scenario of this future. The fact that there may be students at the forefront of new proposals for power systems offers us an optimistic view.