{"id":3034,"date":"2013-06-03T01:46:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T01:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theme.co\/x\/demo\/integrity\/10\/?page_id=3034"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:45:19","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/foundationsforfarming.org.zw\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cs-content\" class=\"cs-content\"><div class=\"x-section e3034-e1 m2ca-0 m2ca-1 m2ca-2 m2ca-3 m2ca-4\"><div class=\"x-row x-container max width e3034-e2 m2ca-d m2ca-f m2ca-g\"><div class=\"x-row-inner\"><div class=\"x-col e3034-e3 m2ca-m\"><div class=\"x-text x-content e3034-e4 m2ca-o m2ca-p m2ca-q m2ca-r m2ca-s m2ca-t m2ca-u m2ca-v m2ca-w\"><h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0FOUNDATIONS FOR FARMING ZIMBABWE<\/span><\/strong><\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"x-section e3034-e5 m2ca-1 m2ca-4 m2ca-5 m2ca-6\"><div class=\"x-bg\"><div class=\"x-bg-layer-lower-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/foundationsforfarming.org.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vlcsnap-2022-06-09-12h48m14s146.jpg\" alt=\"Image\"\/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"x-row x-container max width e3034-e6 m2ca-d m2ca-f m2ca-h\"><div class=\"x-row-inner\"><div class=\"x-col e3034-e7 m2ca-m\"><div class=\"x-text x-content e3034-e8 m2ca-o m2ca-p m2ca-q m2ca-r m2ca-s m2ca-t m2ca-u m2ca-v m2ca-w\"><h3><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">We teach Conservation Agriculture and Sustainability in Zimbabwe<\/span><\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"x-section e3034-e9 m2ca-1 m2ca-3 m2ca-5 m2ca-7 m2ca-8\"><div class=\"x-row x-container max width e3034-e10 m2ca-d m2ca-e m2ca-f m2ca-i\"><div class=\"x-row-inner\"><div class=\"x-col e3034-e11 m2ca-m\"><div class=\"x-frame x-frame-video-embed e3034-e12 m2ca-19 m2ca-1a m2ca-1c\"><div class=\"x-frame-inner\"><div class=\"x-video x-video-embed\"><div class=\"x-resp-embed x-is-video x-is-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hope Grows in the fields of Africa\" width=\"542\" height=\"305\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oJlRayfpbIU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"x-text x-content e3034-e13 m2ca-p m2ca-q m2ca-r m2ca-s m2ca-t m2ca-v m2ca-x m2ca-y m2ca-z\"><h4><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">STARVING EARTH - STARVING PEOPLE<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The poorest in the world are often hungry, have much less access to education, regularly have no light at night, and suffer from much poorer health.<\/p>\n<p><strong>84% of the world\u2019s 608 million farms are smallholdings<\/strong>; that is, farms less than two hectares in size. Tragically, many small scale farmers do not even produce enough food for themselves. They are among the poorest people in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Various factors add more pressure to small scale farmers like the <strong>loss of arable land<\/strong>, the world\u2019s growing population and land distribution issues. In the past 40 years more than 30% of the world\u2019s arable land has been lost due to soil erosion, climate change, pollution, continual ploughing and heavy fertilization<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #009051;\">39<\/span> <\/span><span class=\"\" style=\"font-size: x-large;\">c<\/span><\/span><span class=\"\" style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"><span class=\"\">ommunities that have attended 2-week trainings in Faith, Family, Farming and Finance at Foundations for Farming Zimbabwe in Harare have an <\/span><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #009051; font-size: x-large;\">average maize yield of 8 metric tons\/Ha<\/span><span class=\"\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"><span class=\"\">Zimbabwe\u2019s national average maize yield for small-scale farmers is 1 ton\/Ha<\/span><\/span><span class=\"\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\">This\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"\" style=\"font-family: Lato,sans-serif;\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #009051; font-size: x-large;\">8-fold increase in\u00a0productivity<\/span><span class=\"\"> happens\u00a0because yield is directly proportional to standards in agriculture. Standards, or work ethic, is an issue of the heart. Stewardship, or heart transformation, is the greatest tool available to bring about sustainable\u00a0development. Handouts to populations that have\u00a0the ability to work creates dependency, destroys productivity and encourages unfaithfulness.<\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"x-text x-content e3034-e14 m2ca-p m2ca-q m2ca-r m2ca-s m2ca-t m2ca-z m2ca-10\"><h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Climate-smart Conservation Agriculture enables farmers to sustain themselves on a very small piece of land, heal the soil, and nourish it for future generations.<\/h5><\/div><div class=\"x-text x-content e3034-e15 m2ca-p m2ca-q m2ca-s m2ca-t m2ca-z m2ca-10 m2ca-11\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIf you spend yourselves on behalf of the hungry<\/em><br \/>\n<em style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,<\/em><br \/>\n<em style=\"font-weight: 400;\">then your light\u00a0will rise in the darkness,<\/em><br \/>\n<em style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and your night will become like the noonday.<\/em><br \/>\n<em style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><sup>11\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>The\u00a0Lord\u00a0will guide\u00a0you\u00a0<\/em><i>always.<\/i><br \/>\n<em style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0he will satisfy your needs\u00a0in a sun-scorched\u00a0<\/em><i>land.<\/i><br \/>\n<em style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and will strengthen\u00a0your frame.<\/em><br \/>\n<em style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You will be like a well-watered garden,<\/em><br \/>\n<em style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0like a spring\u00a0whose waters never fail.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><em>(Isaiah 58:10-11)<\/em><\/p>\n\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"mt-4 mb-3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fao.org\/newsroom\/detail\/research-and-farming-institutions-from-brazil-the-netherlands-and-zimbabwe-win-fao-awards\/en\">Research and farming institutions from Brazil, the Netherlands and Zimbabwe win FAO Awards<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"x-section x-hide-lg x-hide-md x-hide-xl e3034-e16 m2ca-1 m2ca-2 m2ca-3 m2ca-5 m2ca-8 m2ca-9\"><div class=\"x-row x-container max width e3034-e17 m2ca-d m2ca-f m2ca-j\"><div class=\"x-row-inner\"><div class=\"x-col e3034-e18 m2ca-m\"><span class=\"x-image e3034-e19 m2ca-1d m2ca-1e\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/foundationsforfarming.org.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/49059795376_e5efc53727_o-1-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"542\" height=\"362\" alt=\"Image\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"x-section x-hide-lg x-hide-xl e3034-e20 m2ca-1 m2ca-4 m2ca-5 m2ca-9 m2ca-a m2ca-b\"><div class=\"x-bg\"><div class=\"x-bg-layer-lower-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"Image\"\/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"x-row x-container max width e3034-e21 m2ca-d m2ca-f m2ca-k\"><div class=\"x-row-inner\"><div class=\"x-col e3034-e22 m2ca-m\"><div class=\"x-text x-content e3034-e23 m2ca-t m2ca-12\"><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.&nbsp;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Genesis 1:12<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"x-section e3034-e24 m2ca-1 m2ca-3 m2ca-5 m2ca-8 m2ca-a m2ca-c\"><div class=\"x-row x-container max width e3034-e25 m2ca-d m2ca-e m2ca-f m2ca-l\"><div class=\"x-row-inner\"><div class=\"x-col e3034-e26 m2ca-m\"><span class=\"x-image e3034-e27 m2ca-1d m2ca-1f m2ca-1g\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/foundationsforfarming.org.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FAO-Director-General-with-recipients-of-FAO-awards.jpeg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" alt=\"Image\"><\/span><div class=\"x-text x-content e3034-e28 m2ca-p m2ca-r m2ca-s m2ca-t m2ca-w m2ca-x m2ca-13 m2ca-14 m2ca-15 m2ca-16\"><h5><span style=\"color: #008000;\">WHO WE ARE<\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Foundations for Farming Zimbabwe (FfF) is a registered non-profit organization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">FfF\u2019s method of conservation agriculture and message of hope applies the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to faith, family, and finance through farming.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">The simple, transformative power of faithful stewardship of people, places, and profits heals our planet. FfF was founded in Zimbabwe by Brian Oldreive in 1982. FfF has become a ministry with 50 full-time employees and over 1,000 volunteers spread throughout the world. FfF is based at a model 15 Ha farm on the outskirts of Harare. The center has accommodations and a training center for crop trials, training, and research. Before joining FfF, most team members were farmers, some of them for decades.<\/p>\n\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008000;\">WHAT WE DO<\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">FfF specializes in training small-scale farmers to adopt simple, manageable, applicable, long-lasting (SMALL) soil conservation practices that result in high yields. Small field, more yield.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Through FfF, farmers learn the minimal requirements to become self-sufficient and generate surplus from their land. With our best practices farmers escape poverty, have healthy diets, improve the environment, and generate enough income to build a better future for themselves and their families. FfF\u2019s training is based on a holistic, biblical, character-based approach that relies on personal transformation to achieve lasting behavior modification and results. Farmers learn to return to a circular economy as faithful stewards of nature that unlocks productivity, sustainability, and profitability.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">FfF\u2019s mantra is: <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>On Time, At standard, Without waste, and with joy<\/strong><\/span>. If you apply these principles to any business, invariably in the end you will make a profit. Profit is the fruit of faithfulness.<\/p>\n\n<h5>OUR IMPACT<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We have provided direct training to over 30,000 farmers and instructors. A lot of our previous trainees are enthusiastic supporters of our techniques in their communities. As a result, the principles of Foundations for Farming have been imparted to more than 3 million farmers globally.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our mentoring program helps small-scale farmers achieve an average yield of 8 T\/Ha, which is significantly higher than the national average of 0.4 T\/Ha in Zimbabwe. To understand more, click this link for a full video explanation: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/iaQV0tehds4?si=uxRtPZBUno-_Neua\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/iaQV0tehds4?si=uxRtPZBUno-_Neua<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Conventional farming methods see yields decline and costs rise. We are the first step in transforming farms to apply conservation agriculture, agroforestry, composting, and more. Although we focus on small holdings, the Foundations for Farming principles have been applied from the smallest garden to the largest commercial farm. The Founder of Foundations for Farming, Brian Oldreive, farmed 3,500 Ha using this system and set a national maize yield record that stood for 20 years in Zimbabwe. Some of the many benefits are less soil erosion, efficient water management, improved bio-density and nutrition of the food, and increased biodiversity. Climate-smart farming reduces the impact of droughts and makes plants stronger to withstand pests and diseases.<\/p><\/div><span class=\"x-image e3034-e29 m2ca-1d m2ca-1f m2ca-1h\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/foundationsforfarming.org.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Web-Image.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"352\" alt=\"Image\"><\/span><\/div><div class=\"x-col e3034-e30 m2ca-m m2ca-n\"><div class=\"x-text x-content e3034-e31 m2ca-q m2ca-s m2ca-t m2ca-u m2ca-w m2ca-11 m2ca-13 m2ca-16 m2ca-17\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0b321wr\"><div style=\"\"><strong>BBC Podcast on Foundations for Farming<\/strong><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"x-text x-content e3034-e32 m2ca-r m2ca-s m2ca-t m2ca-u m2ca-w m2ca-15 m2ca-16 m2ca-17\"><h6 style=\"color: #077417; background-color: #eee; padding: 1em; margin-bottom: -2em;\">How the Life of this Family was Transformed<\/h6><\/div><div class=\"x-frame x-frame-video-embed e3034-e33 m2ca-19 m2ca-1b m2ca-1c\"><div class=\"x-frame-inner\"><div class=\"x-video x-video-embed\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/336341726?h=de84b150a1&title=0&byline=0&portrait=0\" width=\"471\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"x-text x-content x-hide-md x-hide-sm x-hide-xs e3034-e34 m2ca-p m2ca-r m2ca-t m2ca-u m2ca-w m2ca-16 m2ca-18\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em>And God said, \u201cLet the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.\u201d And it was so.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em>The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em>Genesis 1:11-12<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0FOUNDATIONS FOR FARMING ZIMBABWEWe teach Conservation Agriculture and Sustainability in Zimbabwe STARVING EARTH &#8211; STARVING PEOPLE The poorest in the world are often hungry, have much less access to education, regularly have no light at night, and suffer from much poorer health. 84% of the world\u2019s 608 million farms are smallholdings; that is, farms less than two hectares in size. Tragically, many small scale farmers do not even produce enough food for themselves. They are among the poorest people in the world. Various factors add more pressure to small scale farmers like the loss of arable land, the world\u2019s growing population &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/foundationsforfarming.org.zw\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"template-blank-4.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3034","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundationsforfarming.org.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundationsforfarming.org.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundationsforfarming.org.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundationsforfarming.org.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundationsforfarming.org.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3034"}],"version-history":[{"count":423,"href":"https:\/\/foundationsforfarming.org.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10127,"href":"https:\/\/foundationsforfarming.org.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3034\/revisions\/10127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundationsforfarming.org.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}