 The ALC really exemplifies that starting with trust and starting with these meaningful relationships you can really accomplish so much more. We have this feeling that they are in the community, they are of the community and their goals are the same as ours. Something very interesting about working with the University of Vermont is that they are a very flexible team that accepts suggestions and opinions and adapts the methodology according to the circumstances of the place. At the ALC we've always partnered with smallholder farms and smallholder farmers as a group that focuses on agroecology. Smallholder folks are at the heart of what we do and we believe that they create tremendous value within the food system and are the key to the food system transformation that we want to see. They're not coming to us with specific questions but instead asking us what do we need to learn, what do we need to understand to participate better in this global movement. And here we have a saying, the researchers propose the facilitators of this component. That's exactly why they allowed us to make changes in the original structure and that made it much easier to work with them. All of our work at the ALC is based on relationships and we think that's the way to co-create the solutions that are going to move us towards food systems transformation.