INVEST IN FFF
Where capital becomes lasting infrastructure.
We invest in real-world systems that generate food, livelihoods, and long-term resilience, not projects designed to perform well on paper.
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Each opportunity we offer is grounded in operational reality: transparent economics, community ownership, and models designed to function independently over time. These are not short-term interventions. They are foundations intended to outlast funding cycles and organisational involvement.
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For those who care about legacy rather than optics, this is an invitation to participate in building something that endures.
Structured models. Real impact. Enduring value.
THE ZAMBEZI
RIVER TRAIL
Where community-owned tourism becomes lasting infrastructure.
The Zambezi River Trail is a deliberately designed, multi-day walking trail along the Upper Zambezi, offering something rare in African tourism: a structured, affordable journey that is owned and operated by the communities it passes through.
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Rather than concentrating value in a single lodge or external operator, the trail distributes income daily across multiple river communities. Walkers stay in riverbank chalets and island camps, pay transparent trail fees, and directly fund conservation, maintenance and local livelihoods with every step.
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This is not extractive tourism.
It is infrastructure for long-term economic resilience.
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Over time, the trail supports employment, strengthens stewardship of the river, and builds a growing corridor of community-owned enterprise along one of Africa’s most significant ecosystems.
THE FOOD FOREST
BLOCK SYSTEM
Where food security, livelihoods and land regeneration converge.
The Food Forest Block System is a scalable model that enables rural communities to grow food, generate income and restore degraded land through a simple, repeatable structure.
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Each Block is a functioning 5-hectare ecosystem that combines food production, agroforestry and village-level enterprise. Crops are grown, sold and reinvested locally. Jobs are created. Soil is restored. Independence grows. This is not charity agriculture.It is economic infrastructure rooted in land.
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The model has already been tested in practice, with Blocks generating income and communities beginning to build reliable livelihoods from their own production. The investment structure is transparent, grounded and designed for long-term community ownership.
CONTACT US
We’d love to hear from you! Whether you have questions, comments, or just want to learn more about the work we’re doing to promote sustainable food systems and biodiversity, feel free to reach out. Your input and support are essential to our mission, and we’re always happy to connect with like-minded individuals and organizations.
The Food Forest Foundation - Sitting Pool Island, Zambia
+260 96 5352742