Advancing sustainable agriculture
Holistic Organizational Empower-
ment (HOE)
Program Objectives:
1. Raise capacities of agrarian reform ben-
eficiaries in the management of their,
organization and production, enhance-
ment of their values and skills, gender
mainstreaming and rural youth develop-
ment
2. Strengthen the cluster level organization
of farmers and enhance their capacity in
integrated area development, participa-
tion in decision making and comprehen-
sive planning to their communities.
3. Strengthen the agrarian reform benefi-
ciaries’ ownership and control of their
lands, acquisition and management of
productive resources, and improve their
access to market with better prices for
their products.
4. Enable producers for independent and
self reliant development of their internal
and external resources, through post
production savings mobilization capital
build up and claim making.
technologies and practices through
farmer-to-farmer learning system!
Sustainable Production and Area 4. Develop CRASP to become an alterna-
Development Enterprise (SPADE) tive and people-oriented financing insti-
tution
Program Objectives:
1. Enable SA-OF farmer practitioners to in-
crease productivity through production
planning, participatory technology devel-
opment, access to appropriate farm tools
and equipment.
2. Ensure food security of farming commu-
nities and improve incomes from prod- Farm Equipment Services (FES)
ucts of diversified and ecologically sound Program Objectives:
farming systems.
1. Provide marginal producers timely ac-
3. Improve quality standards of agricultural cess to tractor and irrigation services
products to meet market specifications. towards improving productivity and
4. Develop capacities of farmers in post income of small farms.
harvest, product processing and 2. Provide information and trainings on
marketing cultivation and irrigation methods and
farm equipment maintenance.
Credit Access and Support Program
(CRASP)
Program Objectives:
1. Develop farmers’ capacities in feasibilities
study, project planning and management
and provide trainings that support project
implementation and monitoring.
2. Facilitate credit assistance for production
projects and install a transparent and
functional finance management system
among producers’ organizations and en-
sure timely repayment of loans.
3. Assist producers’ organizations in estab-
lishing community savings and credit pro-
grams for sustained services to produc-
ers’ organizations.

Enhancing Productivity and
Women Participation (EPWP)
The goal of the project is:
1. To increase small producers’ socio-
economic well-being through farm di-
versification and access to farm facili-
ties, and by increasing women partici-
pation in social and economic activities
in their communities
2. The objectives of the project were de-
fined as:
3. Further enhance productivity and in-
come of Pos and individual members
through the integration of livestock,
farm equipment and facilities and off-
farm livelihood projects.
4. Optimize women participation and their
meaningful contribution to their house-
holds and communities
In 1997, Alter Trade Foundation, Inc.
(ATFI) was formed to provide pro-
gram and service support packages
to small farmers engaged in the pro-
duction of organically-grown balan-
gon, sugarcane for mascobado and
other crops.
“ We envision our organization as
 a professional, innovative and
socially responsible business
organization
 in partnership with self-reliant
and self-determining communi-
ties
 responding to the demands of
customers in the Philippines
and the World for quality pro-
duce from sustainable agricul-
ture,
 operating in a viable, socially-
just economic system that is in
Promote Sustainable Agriculture
and Organic Farming thereby im-
proving people's access to and
management of resources and
contribute to security of land ten-
ure and food supply towards at-
tainment of economic sufficiency,
sustainability and self-governance SEC Reg. No. E19970099
of people’s organization and com- Alter Trade Bldg.
munities. Blk. 6-A Lily St. Bata Subd. Bacolod City
Negros Occ., Philippines
Phone: (034) 441-1489 / Fax: (034) 441-0051
E-mail: atfinc@gmail.com
URL: http://www.altertradegroup.com.ph