SAEDA, the Sustainable Agriculture & Environment Development Association (formerly SAF, the Sustainable Agriculture Forum founded in March 1991 under umbrella of members and CUSO) is a non-profit civil society organization founded in 2007 in Lao PDR. SAEDA works to support vulnerable communities by sustainable development focusing on 4 core programs of intervention: Sustainable Agriculture (SA), Environment Conservation (EC), Food Safety (SF) & Farmer Organizations (FOs) with 2 support programs: Fund Raising & Marketing (FRM), and Information, Research & Advocacy (IRA).