Mission

The ST. BENEDICT FARMERS INSTITUTE ON SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE helps farming communities by facilitating asset-based community development and sustainability via:

• Community participation
• Health and nutrition
• Household base food security
• Ecologically sound farming systems
• Christian value formation   

Goals 

The ST. BENEDICT FARMERS INSTITUTE ON SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE is focused on:

• Organizing and strengthening the participatory and asset-based processes among its partner barangay-based communities
• Developing community-based asset maps
• Formulating asset-based community/barangay development plans
• Supervising a pool of farmers, scientists and community-based organizers.
• Educating and training farmers on various aspects of sustainable agriculture.
• Developing a community-based and farmer-directed educational program on Christian value formation, sustainable agriculture, health and nutrition.
• Developing the St. Benedict’s Farm (SB Farm) in Alang-alang into an integrated, diversified, organic, community-based, farmer-directed learning center, health care center, organic market and alternative agro-ecotourism showcase.
• Facilitating farmer-based technology, research and innovation for development of sustainable farming systems and health care. 
• Developing community-based seed banks through collection, improvement, evaluation and breeding of plant and animal species which are significant to agriculture, health and nutrition.
• Distributing animal and plant species to partner communities that are significant to agriculture, health and nutrition.
• Developing appropriate institutional management systems for prototyping and operations.