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In five years Alter Trade intend to:

• Organize and strengthen organizations who propagate organic farming and fair trade;

• Build up resources and financial institutions that are supported by sectors who trust and have faith in organic farming and fair trade movement;

•Join in the effort to protect the environment and engage in solid waste management systems;

• Women and men are in the forefront in setting up programs, projects and policies;

• Establish links with the Government, NGOs and other institutions locally and abroad who assist organic farming and fair trade movements;

• Train the youth as successor of the sustainable agriculture practice and who will continue and improve the projects and work started using organic farming-fair trade practice; and

• Ensure the education of the youth to further enhance and improve the projects started and help in securing the sources of revenue of every family.

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Alter Trade continues to support its positive initiatives as it has done since its origins.

Alter Trade has not only just produced a successful trading system in the Philippines, it has given Filipino farmers empowerment and independence to their livelihoods.

Sugar farmers become capable of improving their land and making it productive, due to Alter Trade giving them skills and knowledge to improve their economic state and their political position.

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Through fair trade, also known as "alternative trade," Alter Trade Group helped in addressing social problems related to international trade, particularly those related to small farmers and workers in developing countries who are often exploited by large corporations.
The organization pays farmers and workers fair prices for their products, which helps to ensure that they can earn a decent living and invest in their communities. They also improved working conditions through working with producers, such as providing safe working environments and ensuring that workers are paid a living wage. Alter Trade Group promotes environmental sustainability by encouraging sustainable farming practices and reducing the use of harmful chemicals and pesticides. Through community development, Alter Trade Group invests in community development projects, such as education and healthcare programs, which helps improve the lives of producers and their families.

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Vision

"We dream that our group will be known as producers who produce and sell organic and fair trade harvests from the land we own. We will ensure food security, and establish our financial capability by setting up our own funds, capital and implements of productions. We are for the protection of the environment as we are dependent on its bounty and both women and men equally work for its preservation.
We will establish a bond with consumers to establish a guaranteed market both locally and abroad. We will responsively address the needs and convince small producers and the community to take part in the organic and fair trade movement. We will do this to ensure a more prosperous future for our succeeding generation."

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In 1993, Alter Trade became a member of the World Fair Trade Organization, which provided marginalized producers with sustained access to global markets and enabled them to be part of their own development. The organization adhered to international fair trade standards, including fair prices for producers, fair wages for workers, production pre-financing, prompt payment of deliveries, and assurance of a long-term relationship. Alter Trade has been recognized in the Philippines as the biggest fair trade organization in terms of sales and has been hailed as a model for outreach among poverty sectors.

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Zero Hunger
Many local and international aids came to Negros as support to hundreds of thousands of sugar workers suffering from extreme poverty and hunger but were seen as a non-sustainable solution.

In 1987, Alter Trade was established bringing forward “Trade-not-Aid,” as the sustainable solution to the crisis.

Promotes Equality
Fair trade promotes equality and fair conditions in the production and trade of goods. There are minimum standards and guidance in the pay and conditions of workers and for the sustainability, economic, social and environmental impact in balance of production and trade.

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Alter Trade Group Enterprise began in the 1980s as a collaboration between Filipino and Japanese social activists. It emerged during a sugar crisis in Negros, and used the concept of "Trade, not Aid" to promote people-to-people trade. Initially, the organization's main products were organic muscovado sugar and Balangon bananas, which it exported to partners in Japan and Europe. Alter Trade helped backyard producers and landless sugarcane farmers become farmer-partners in producing organic sugar cane.

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Poverty Reduction
Alter Trade had always engage the poor as its primary stakeholders in its 20-year of practice of sustainable agriculture and fair trade.

Fairtrade contributes to achieving Poverty Reduction through: The Fairtrade Minimum Price, which acts as a safety net for farmers and workers and protects them from fluctuations in the market price.

Mitigate Environmental Degredation
Environmental protection is ingrained in Fairtrade. To sell Fairtrade products, farmers have to improve soil and water quality, manage pests, avoid using harmful chemicals, manage waste, reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and protect biodiversity. This also means food that's safer for the consumer and for the people who grow it.

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Mission
"We are committed in the propagation of organic farming and fair trade principles and practice by organizing agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) and small producers to progressively own and develop resources to make them productive, comprehensively own the land, ensure food for all, link up and establish a fruitful cooperation among producers and consumers here and abroad."

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In 1987, OS3 become the first European company to import Mascobado from Negros, utilizing it to produce" Mascao Chocolate", a compound with fair trade cocoa from Bolivia. after in 1989, the European Fair Trade Association( EFTA), GEPA( a fair trade company in Germany), and OS3( now Claro Fair Trade) formally introduced the model of Fair Trade to Alter Trade during their visits to Negros. With the growing demand for Mascobado. A modernistic muscovado factory capable of pulping 30 tons of sugar cane per day with juice extraction at 70 percent was constructed.

In 1988, the Green Coop suggested the trading of bananas in light of the bounded demand for muscovado in Japan. As they transferred representatives to explore the types of bananas cultivating in Negros, they chose the naturally grown Balangon variety for its sweet-sour( koku) flavor, which was pleasing to the Japanese plate. The Japanese noticed the naturally grown Balangon as a negation to Philippine bananas commercially exported to Japan by international corporations( MNCs) that involved the usage of dangerous chemicals in an exploitative colony terrain. Alter Trade sought out highland communities in the area where Balangon bananas were naturally grown as a supplemental crop in the backyards of homes. At that moment, bananas of the Balangon variety had no salable worth. Alter Trade worked  out arrangements with different farmers willing to serve as partner suppliers.

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For more than 30 years, Altertrade has been successful in improving the social and economic circumstances of Negros' agrarian reform recipients and of small farmers nationwide. It works to make sure that its business operations are sustainable in order to advance its social development initiatives. The Sustainable Agroecological Villages (SAVe) development paradigm from Altertrade aims to enhance rural businesses and empower smallholder farmers for the benefit of the local community.

The onset of globalization also raised fresh concerns. Alter Trade seeks to develop the Real Food Movement of producers and consumers united by solidarity links marked by Fair Trade and "people-to-people" partnerships in response to the threats to food security and human health.

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Amado, Jomari
Quibod, Lady Rodela
Gandawali, Sittie Najmah
Tamoza, Yeshareiel
Morante, Mine Heart Nicole
Cabahug, Jan Endrick