In Latin America, USC Canada currently supports the work of farmers in Honduras, Bolivia,and Cuba. Our programs in Latin America are focused on agriculture work:

• Building farmers’ capacity to solve their own problems by doing agricultural research and sharing the results within their communities
• Promoting seed conservation and seed exchanges
• Developing an organic agriculture that preserves the local biodiversity
• Ensuring food security.

Farmers participating in USC Latin American program are involved in a wide-range of community development projects that include

• Improving watershed management
• Creating community vegetable gardens
• Organizing training and farmer exchanges
• Fostering community seed and gene banks
• Transforming and commercializing farmer’s production