Farm 2 Food foundation is building aspirations and skills among young people towards farm and food entrepreneurship for a prosperous and peaceful Northeast. Foundation (F2F) works to enhance the incomes of individuals engaged in the agricultural value chain, thereby fostering a productive, self-reliant society where communities take full ownership of their development journey. By placing schools and communities at the center of its efforts, F2F empowers youth, students, and women to become active catalysts and agents of change.

F2F positions local communities as co-creators and facilitators of transformation. Its initiatives span four key program areas designed to nurture leadership, resilience, and sustainable livelihoods.

Key Initiatives and Projects

1. Learning Farmers; Young people are engaged through activity based leadership programs. Through hands-on exposure and networking opportunities their agencies are developed towards youth leadership on food systems transformation.

• Farm-Preneur Program: To build aspirations, Farm2Food Foundation engages  with middle-school students. The School Nutrition gardens function as living laboratories for science and mathematics, offering students hands-on exposure to organic farming, nutrition, and entrepreneurship. Through activities such as creating raised soil beds and observing plant growth, students gain practical knowledge in geometry, botany, and entomology. The harvested produce contributes to midday meals, while by-products such as vermi-compost, vermi-wash, and bio-pesticides are sold, instilling entrepreneurial skills at an early age. This program was adopted by the Assam Government and later by Government of India to roll out in 1.2 million schools across the country.

• Youth leadership: To build aspirations and agencies among youth towards self and community leadership, an engagement based on constitutional literacy and 13 agroecology principles have been developed.
• Angela Marti Memorial Fund: Provides scholarships to young women from tea garden communities in Assam to pursue higher education, while also supporting the renovation and enhancement of school libraries.
• Library Project: Aims to improve literacy and academic performance in rural government schools by upgrading libraries and distributing age-appropriate books through mobile reading sessions.
• Mobile Science Lab: A traveling laboratory designed to provide rural students with practical, hands-on science learning.

2. Emerging farmers; Family Household level engagement is done to ensure that whatever young people are learning through Farmpreneur and Youth leadership is continued back at home. Mothers are engaged through orientation programs and encouraged to partner with their children to revive the kitchen garden at home. To ensure families diversify their income sources, various livelihood training is provided.

• Nutrition; Establish Nutrition Gardens at home, emphasizing the role of women in ensuring household nutrition. Adoption of healthy nutritious and balanced diet behaviour is a key component of this intervention.
• Sustainable farming; To reduce input costs and enhance productivity intensive training on organic agriculture is provided. Training is provided in vermi-compost, and other bio input resources are conducted, with the aim of enabling women to eventually produce it commercially. 
• Livestock management; To improve and diversify income sources, livestock management training is provided to the farmers
• Farm2Food Foundation works with Mother’s Groups to The project highlights the importance of improved nutrition, particularly for women and children.

3. Established farmers; Community level leadership opportunity is created for mothers of Farmpreneur students. After acquiring the skills of managing their own enterprises, they are trained on giving back to the community.

• Krishi Sakhi; A cadre of well trained agriculture experts providing all kinds of  agri related services. They promote sustainable farming and dispense organic/ indigenous solutions to the farmers. They operate micro level Bio resource centres.
• Pashu Sakhi; A cadre of well trained livestock experts providing services on livestock at the village level. They have their own livestock farm and also provide solutions like vaccination camps, medicine and other treatments in consultation with the Govt. veterinary department.
• Solar Sakhi; A cadre of village level solar engineers who offers solutions around solar energy.

• Tamul Plate FPO; “Seuj women farm and food producer private limited” is a women led arecanut plate making company. Company addresses the sustainability and climate change challenges through it bio-degradable products made from waste products. These plates are replacing the styrofoam and other non biodegradable cutleries.
• Goatery FPO; A 250 women led company offering a-z services around goat and goatery management.

4. Ecosystem farmers; A nurturing ecosystem for youth leadership on food system entrepreneurship is being promoted through networking and partnership.

• Northeast Youth Alliance for Food systems transformation; A platform for youths across Northeast to learn, network and build collective voice on indigenous food systems.
• Northeast Civil Society Collective;  A platform for NGOs across Northeast to learn, network and build collective voices.

5. Responses to Emergencies: Farm2Food Foundation has undertaken multiple disaster response efforts, including flood relief and COVID-19 pandemic support. With the backing of partners, the Foundation distributed food, PPE kits, oxygen concentrators, and medical supplies to rural communities. During the pandemic, vaccination drives and poster-making campaigns were led with youth at the forefront. In addition, F2F conducts continuous research and documentation to capture the long-term effects of such crises on farmers, children, and the wider community, informing future interventions.