Paul recently joined the Board of Directors of SpringBoard Innovation (www.learninginnovation.org ) following his retirement from Intel Corporation after 23 years working in design, engineering, and educational roles. He designed products, concepts, and developed facilities and educational programs.  Paul is currently developing the Abundance Farming Project (www.abundancefarming.org ), a social enterprise that provides technical solutions for subsistence farmers to increase food crop yields.

The Abundance Farming Project stretches water so poor farmers increase food crop yields to grow their way out of poverty.

AFP enables subsistence farmers in developing economies to stretch scarce water and increase their food crop yields, using a starch-based biodegradable superabsorbent soil-amendment distributed through established NGOs in India, Africa and South America.is to move subsistence farming to surplus farming by distributing enough Zeba(r)superabsorbent in three years so that 1 million small farming households grow their way out of poverty. 

Zeba® biodegradable granules mix in the soil and work by absorbing 500 times their mass in water – 1 Tablespoon absorbs almost 1 gallon of water - then 95% of the water slowly releases as the plant needs it. For a year and more, each hydration cycle stores then releases water and soluble nutrients, feedingdemonstrates results growing more food with less water in local farming conditions, by collaborating with NGOs, non-profits and aid agencies who work with poor farmers in India, Central Africa and South America.  AFP covers the initial product costs for evaluations to demonstrate significantly higher food crop yields and quality with local farming conditions.

 AFP joins with established NGOs and aid agencies to subsidized the costs and expand the distribution to poor farming households, including through micro-loans, repaid only as yield increases profit local farming households. Used with basic farming practices and even with limited water, this unique starch-based superabsorbent product offers poor farming households an opportunity to break the cycle of poverty.