Our Projects
I.- “Agriculture For Everybody” Program.
The mission is to foster self-esteem and dignity among mentally handicapped people, communities that suffered urban violence, youth at risk and freedom deprived persons.
*By learning to cultivate plants they develop skills such as attention span and problem solving.
*By learning to follow plant growth protocols they increase their abilities to develop a self-supportive spirit.


II.- Community based Water Monitoring.
Water issues are central to both human development and health.
The objective is to build local capacity for water monitoring (quality and quantity) and management through community based approaches.
While developing a sense of community service and volunteerism, citizen groups increase knowledge and skills, allowing them to play a critical role in natural resources management in their communities.
The use and success of monitoring technology for citizen groups in the collection of credible data is well documented (Alabama Water Watch and Global Water Watch).


III.- “Agriculture for Future Generations”
Courses to help teachers to use agriculture as a tool in class. Plant matters are great tools for teachers. ASF together with JMG programs will help increase the participation of young people in agricultural matters in Latin America. JMG participants have identified the following advantages:
•youth were more enthusiastic about learning, improved teamwork skills and self-understanding
•enhanced classroom/educational program
•has encouraged students to get involved in projects to serve their community
•increased youth interest in their surrounding environment and in science projects.
•contributed to higher academic standards.
Exchange of young agriculturalists to be trained in enthomology, breeding and phytopathology among private and official institutes in order to promote enthousiasm and interest in the applied aspects of these important biosciences, to some extent shadowed by the drift towards biotechnology.

IV.- “Usable Biodiversity Maintenance”
This Project aims to the skills of subsistance farmers in biodiversity conservation and use. The initial focus and model crop is the potato.
The most relevant aspects taken in consideration involve training in :
agronomic aspects for crop management
Seed production
Participatory breeding
Infrastructure, plant basic material and organizational skills are given to the communities
Las poblaciones objetivos son productores de papa de variedades nativas en el NOA, agricultores de subsistencia en la Patagonia, comunidades wichis del Chaco seco y comunidades marginales de los grandes centros urbanos.
The communities participating in these project are:
–Native communities dedicated to the growth of ancient potato varieties in NW Argentina
–Subsistance farmers in Patagonia, Argentina
–Wichi indian communities in the Dry Chaco, Argentina
–Marginal periurban communities in Argentina