Farm2Food Foundation is a non political non religious and pro democratic registered society. Farm2Food Foundation based in Assam, engages with the next generation of the North East to enable them to become farm and food entrepreneurs and build a prosperous and peaceful North East India. The programme intends to seed the noble thought in the young impressionable minds so that they look up to Farm-
preneurship as a sustainable and respectable career and livelihood option. Farm2Food Foundation works with school students (Learning Farmers) through its highly successful and awarded Farmpreneur project. The second target audience for Farm2Food is Youth (Emerging Farmers) who are trained to become Organic Agri Entreprneurs. The third target audiences are the established Agri entrepreneurs (Established farmers). Through development of learning networks, Farm2Food engages with them to become entrepreneurs who financially, socially and ecologically contributes to the development of the society. So, far, Farm2Food have worked with 150 schools in partnership with Assam Sarba Shiksha Abhiyan and has trained about 3000 farmers on organic farming. The organization has a firm belief on building partnership with not just the beneficiary communities but with every stakeholder. We have developed strong partnership with local government administration, schools, colleges and Agriculture University. Founded by two friends, Gaurav Gogoi and Deepjyoti Sonu Brahma. Deep Jyoti Sonu Brahma or “DJ” as referred to by many friends and colleagues, has over 18 years of experience of working with adolescents, youths, teachers and communities. He has worked with schools, colleges and institutes across the country. He has contributed to the development of resource material on “Adolescent Development Program” jointly published by UNFPA and NCERT. He studied Psychology at Delhi University and Education at TISS, Mumbai. Gaurav Gogoi is deeply involved in economic development of Assam and the North East. He is currently a Director of a magazine called Eclectic NorthEast which promotes alternative and positive stories from the North-East. Owing to his interest in rural development, he has launched several initiatives to develop the leadership and talent of young people in agriculture and sports. His agri-based foundation Farm2Food Foundation supports young agriculturists through training, market promotion and policy advocacy. He has a Master’s in Public Administration from New York University, New York.
