Seeds Fight HungerGardens give nutrition, income, and self-reliance.
Crisis RecoveryAfter disaster response: what’s next?
LivelihoodGardens grow income for education, medicines, tools.
Women’s EmpowermentWomen with resources and power can transform lives.
Success StoriesTiny seeds that made a big difference.
Where SPI Seeds Come FromWe help top-quality vegetable seeds find new homes.
Where SPI Seeds GoWe’ve partnered in over 75 countries.
At Seed Programs International, we envision a world where the most vulnerable people have access to viable vegetable seed and the knowledge to grow nutritious food. We believe that no one should go hungry — that the ability to grow and access nutritious food is a basic human right.
For the past 20 years, our work with local leaders has strengthened communities around the world. These are often communities that have borne the brunt of systemic exploitation, oppression, and violence — forces that similarly affect Black lives in the United States. We are committed to continuing our work to transfer material resources and knowledge so that people can gain more power over their own lives, both internationally and within the United States.
We stand with everyone who believes in equal rights for all people. We are committed to work that prioritizes the most disenfranchised throughout the world. As a group dedicated to human life, we will not stay silent while people are being impoverished, strangled, and killed by systemic violence. We stand for human rights.
#BlackLivesMatter
In solidarity,
The SPI Team
Half the world still lives on less than $2 per day. On this budget, it can be impossible to sustain life. Malnutrition in the developing world causes dire consequences for nearly a billion people, 60% of them women and girls. Yet, there is hope for change as the majority of those who are hungry are farmers by trade, but lack the resources to grow their own food. In many developing countries, women in particular are well-positioned to lead families and communities out of malnutrition and poverty.
Hunger is overcome when people are empowered to produce their own food.
Seed Programs International provides quality seeds and critically-needed expertise to impoverished communities in developing countries. The strategy initiates a cycle of self-sufficiency that gives people resources they need to feed themselves. Extra vegetables are readily sold to bring household income. Gardeners are then able to cover school fees and supplies, garden equipment, and healthcare, furthering their ability to overcome poverty.
With SPI’s investment in their futures, people around the world are achieving better lives—for their families and their communities.
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Seed Programs International
PO Box 9163
Asheville, NC 28815
+1-828-337-8632
Seed Programs Canada (Affiliate)
Registered Charity No. 839858107RR0001
Lombardy, ON
613-406-6100
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Seed Programs International (SPI) is a non-profit, tax exempt, non-governmental humanitarian organization.
We work thorough other humanitarian organizations, church groups, service clubs and individual donors, to provide quality seed to impoverished communities in developing countries enabling them to grow some of their own food. In addition to seed, SPI provides critical seed expertise and experience operating seed based self help programs.”
SPI is operated by individuals with over 50 years seed industry experience plus over 20 years experience in vegetable research and production. We also have 15 years experience operating programs that have successfully shipped seed to over 70 countries on five continents. SPI has shipped enough seed to plant over 1,000,000 vegetable gardens, providing more than 20 kinds of vegetables that are rich in vitamins and minerals often missing in people’s diets.
