Restore Fund
2025 Application - CLOSED
The Restore with ZFPA program acts as a catalyst for city, national, and regional initiatives to support and subsidize regenerative farmers — enhancing the positive ecosystem services that agriculture can provide. Its mission is to advance climate action through improved soil health and increased carbon sequestration.
Since launching in June 2021, Zero Foodprint Asia has been collecting pledges and donations from restaurants and supporting partners to grow the Restore Fund. Grant applications open annually in Hong Kong (and soon in Malaysia), with funding of up to USD 25,000 awarded to each selected project.
How will farmers benefit
from this program?
To ensure your farm successfully transitions to regenerative farming, you will be paired with a Technical Assistant Provider, or Soil Health Consultant.
Short-term and long-term benefits to adopting regenerative practices include (but not limited to):
healthier soil is correlated with tastier, more
nutrient-dense producereduces vulnerability to droughts and floods,
crops become more resilient to climate changehealthier soil boosts plant-defense mechanisms, making plants more resistant and/ less attractive to harmful pests, minimizing loss for farmers
input costs (including manpower) are reduced, allowing for agricultural businesses to become more profitable
increases the % of food grown locally, strengthening local food ways and food security
Our partner soil health experts and advisors will help you monitor, track and measure the increase in soil microbiology, and other ecosystem impacts such water, biodiversity, and carbon sequestration potentials on your farms over time.
This is for the purpose of:
data collection of the impacts that regenerative practices have on Asia's soils
understanding how to adopt regenerative applications on Asia’s context
communicating progress on the farm, allowing farmers to visualize the impacts
“What I would love to do is for more people know about regenerative farming. It benefits me a lot and I hope more people can learn from it.”.
Eva, Restore Grantee 22-24
During our last webinar (15 June 2023), we walked through the application criteria and process, funding timeline, capacity-building opportunities, regenerative management practices, and the technical support available to applicants.
Watch the full session to learn more!
(The webinar was conducted in Cantonese.
English subtitles are available.)
Restore Fund Grant Webinar
