Hunger Below ZeroMission: Creating a Hunger Free Africa Where We

Can Plant,Eat and Repeat!

Vision: To curb hunger in Africa through inclusive agriculgural sector growth and improve access of diverse and quality food to poor people by year 2050 using off season indegenous vegetables and fruits.

What's Hunger Below Zero?

It is a high impact, high growth social enterprise that provides people living at the bottom of the pyramid with the infrastructure, training and support they need to start and manage micro agri-businesses.

We are Improving food security in Kenya at the grassroots levels through increased utilization of Indigenous Vegetables and off season fruits by making it easy for our franchisees to feed their families and earn a sustainable livelihood by selling excess fresh, organic vegetables to their neighbors.

We are addressing food security through our innovative way of eradicating poverty at grassroots levels. We acquire 1acre farms on basis of willing buyer willing seller (land ethics) and we employ the villagers who earn a substantial amount to do the manual,do the packaging and we create market then distribute.

This is a kind of organic farming for vegetables and off season fruits that fetch high income. We are also going to have our own independent community bank that loans farmers (women) collateral free money to expand their agricultural production in the next one year from vegetables to Dairy farming and Poultry Keeping.

Our SolutionHunger Below Zero effectively tackles the challenge of providing food security to disadvantaged communities in a financially sustainable way by establishing grassroots entrepreneurs who are trained to start and run small scale agri-businesses that supply their families and neighbourhoods with fresh, organic produce.Our solution is scalable and replicable.

How?We use Foodboxes, a " FoodBox"is a 35 meter squared collection of 200 crates which are purpose-built crates used for growing vegetables.The base and sides of the crates are lined with hessian fabric that acts as a special planting layer for a mixture of soil and compost manure which is poured into this make-shift container.

Vegetable seedlings or seeds are planted directly into this grow medium. Each crate accommodates twenty seedlings.

The ideal grow medium makes it possible for crops tobe harvested within a few weeks of planting. (Drip irrigation is fixed along the crate sides too)

Crates are movable and easily replaced once the produce has been consumed or sold.

This innovation eliminates all soil preparation and preservation, which reduces maintenance to a minimum.

Then...

What's in It?1) Hunger Below Zero Nurseries-produce large volumes of quality vegetable seedlings in each community to ensure constant, dependable and affordable supply to the localhub.

2) Hunger Below Zero Hubs -manufacture, sell and distribute vegetable crates, as well as select, train and support the franchisees in each target community.

3) Hunger Below Zero Franchises- are micro-agri-home businesses run by trusted members of the local community who are taught how to earn sustainable livelihoods by growing & selling fresh, organic vegetables to their neighbors.

Thank you!