About Feedback to the Future
Legal entity, funding, remuneration & dissolution Feedback to the Future
Stichting Feedback to the Future is a dynamic non-profit foundation established in the Netherlands in 2020. The foundation is managed by a board of three governors who bear the final responsibility for all operations
With a view to 2026 it is our mission to invert the downward development cycle of land degradation, urbanization, and growing poverty into an upward cycle of ecosystem restoration based on the planting and operation of
±5,000 hectares of food forests by smallholder farmers in Kenya, improving the food security/safety, wealth, health, and wellbeing in targeted communities resulting in a sustainable community development
Meet Our Team
CO-Founder
Benedetta Kyengo
Chair
Co-Founder
Guus Paardekoper
Treasurer
Co-Founder
Marc Buiter
Secretary
Our objective
The general objective of Feed Back to the Future is co-creation and operation of circular and regenerative innovations to promote a sustainable development of local communities in Africa and elsewhere.
The foundation subscribes to all the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) of the United Nations and focuses specifically on the following SDG’s.
- Zero Hunger – End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
- Clean Water and Sanitation – Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
- Gender Equality – Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls (included all transgender women). And
- Partnerships for the Goals – Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.
- Life on Land – Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt
- Climate Action – Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
- Sustainable Cities and Communities – Make cities and human settlements inclusive, resilient and sustainable.
- Affordable and Clean Energy – Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.
Feedback to the Future focuses on stimulating a bottom-up transition toward a sustainable local food system in Kenya, based on syntropic food forestry and local market development that promote ecosystem restoration and social, economic, and ecological self-sufficiency and resilience of local communities.
Targeted milestones on our food transition pathway toward 2026
Elaborate (on/offline digital) tools & materials for blended learning on food forestry (e.g. a digital platform) by means of ±180 trainings for about 5,400 smallholder farmers who have received basic training in agroecology & food forestry;
±900 educated individuals have been trained on an advanced level and about 800 of them have provided technical assistance to target groups with the design & planting of the food forests;
±2,500 smallholder farms have started/are in the progress of transforming into syntropic food forests covering over 5,000 hectares of land in 3 counties, Makueni, Kitui and Machakos, creating 5 new ‘hotspots’ for further scaling of the FttF-approach;
An increase in household annual income of participating farmers from about KES 25,000 to about KES 360,000 per farm in year 1 and ±KES 3,000,000 in year 3 after the completion of a food forest on an average farm of 5 acres;
±360 nurseries of (trees and vegetable) seedlings have been set up on the land of local farmers;
7 hectares of land in Kathonzweni have been transformed into a well-equipped, second site for Demonstration, Training and Research & Development of syntropic food forestry (= 1 of the 5 new ‘hotspot’ areas to extend the FttF approach)
Policy Plan Feedback to the Future (2022-2026)
Elaborate (on/offline digital) tools & materials for blended learning on food forestry (e.g. a digital platform) by means of ±180 trainings for about 5,400 smallholder farmers who have received basic training in agroecology & food forestry;
±900 educated individuals have been trained on an advanced level and about 800 of them have provided technical assistance to target groups with the design & planting of the food forests;
±2,500 smallholder farms have started/are in the progress of transforming into syntropic food forests covering over 5,000 hectares of land in 3 counties, Makueni, Kitui and Machakos, creating 5 new ‘hotspots’ for further scaling of the FttF-approach;
An increase in household annual income of participating farmers from about KES 25,000 to about KES 360,000 per farm in year 1 and ±KES 3,000,000 in year 3 after the completion of a food forest on an average farm of 5 acres;
±360 nurseries of (trees and vegetable) seedlings have been set up on the land of local farmers;
7 hectares of land in Kathonzweni have been transformed into a well-equipped, second site for Demonstration, Training and Research & Development of syntropic food forestry (= 1 of the 5 new ‘hotspot’ areas to extend the FttF approach)
