Food & Forests

Food & Forests is a proprietary agroforestry platform, founded by Julian & Ed Pycraft in 2018 to mitigate the growing risks of climate change and food insecurity in Africa. Food & Forests provides marginalised small-holder farmers' with the tools to transform their farms into organic, carbon positive assets. Our 2 acre demo food forest in Kilifi puts Kenyan smallholder farmers at the centre of the design. The micro-financing journey that follows is the most holistic and sustainable route to market for smallholder farmers encompassing water management systems, security fencing, organic farming inputs and micro-insurance. We analyse the global value chains for high impact, organic agroforestry products from Kilifi County, Kenya. We show the farmers in our food forest, what should be grown on their farms. We provide the farmers with the inputs, off-take their agroforestry harvests, and pay them for sequestering carbon within the Plan Vivo carbon accreditation framework. This turnkey solution delivers the financial independence every farmer aspires towards, while enhancing local biodiversity, community livelihoods and our global effort to reverse climate change. Interested in how you can partner with us? Check out our website, sign up for our newsletter and join our systems-change agriculture movement.