The 4-year Desarollo Program entered into by and between Fundacion JF Ledesma and Fundacion CODESPA is winding up on 31 December 2010. The program has two (2) major expected results (ER): ER1-Agricultural productive capacity and quality of farming families improved under the model of crop diversification; and ER2-Marketing of agricultural products improved with the creation of a social enterprise for trading.

Basically, the R1 is focused more on Capacity Building; and the ER2 facilitates activities biased more on marketing support and market positioning. The realization of R2 deliverables is the formation of SanCa Farmers Organizations Organically Designed Systems (SanCa FOODS). It serves as a Farmers’ Cluster Network basically responsible for product processing and marketing. Likewise, it serves as the precursor for the SanCa FOODS’ evolution that would spell-out the future of Desarollo Program’s sustainability and ensuring continuous benefits as multiplier effects and impacts to interested target groups and direct beneficiaries on a long-term basis. This is indeed the dream of the San Carlos Master Development Plan under the development priority of the Agricultural Productivity Training Center.

The SanCa FOODS, Inc has been registered as a non-stock, non-profit corporation for more than a year under the laws of the Republic of the Philippines through the Securities and Exchange Commission with a mandate as a social enterprise and federative network of 70-cluster-farmers spread in seven (7) farmers economic district management system (FEDMS).

These seven (7) economic districts are all upland barangays or farming villages of San Carlos City. Topographically, San Carlos City is 80% mountainous and thus, sloping agriculture is the ultimate future of upland villages in maximizing agricultural productivity in the area.

Organizationally, the features of the SanCa Network and Policy Structure are presented and discussed in Box1. Such organizational attributes are all embedded and inscribed into the SanCa FOODS’ constitutions and by-laws (CBL). Operationally, The SanCa Network’s officers and farmer-members of its executive committee have hectic schedules, through the technical assistance of the senior program staff of The Julio and Florentina Ledesma Foundation (JFLFI) in formulation their short-term and long-term operational plans biased to marketing engagement and maximizing agricultural sales that would benefit its member-clusters situated within its covered territorial areas.

The SanCa Network is working for a Vision – “Accessible, quality and industry-based food security for all…” being supported by its functional and operational Mission “Moving local products to the global supply chain and a leader of profitable food and agricultural production differentiated by quality, freshness and guaranteed safety with sustained market leadership utilizing the community-based approach.”. This would be the guiding principle in formulating the organization’s directions under unified corporate values and organizational identities aiming for visible differentiation that would attain organizational loyalty and passion.