Vacancy
Payroll & Taxes Manager
Seeking a global Payroll & Taxes Manager with 5+ years of experience in multi-country payroll to lead a team owning the Payroll & Taxes processes at One Acre Fund.
Tanzania
Article
Why tree planting on farms is a win for farmers and nature
Discover how agroforestry - the practice of planting trees among crops - offers smallholder farmers like Baraka, Dunstan and Claudine a variety of benefits.
Vacancy
Senior Database Administrator
Seeking an exceptional senior database administrator with 5+ years of experience to support building a scalable and robust solution to support our next decade of growth.
Vacancy
Youth and Climate Partnerships Associate (Fixed-term)
Seeking a grant writer and project coordinator with 3-5+ years of experience to ensure exceptional execution of a large and complex grant to improve our climate programming for youth and women.
Article
Farming futures: How youth are cultivating prosperity
In Africa, young people like Taifa represent a significant demographic, with 70% of Sub-Saharan Africa under the age of 30. As this new wave of farmers like Taifa steps up to inherit the mantle from their predecessors, there is a compelling need to encourage even more young people to embrace farming.
Vacancy
People Innovations Senior Specialist
Seeking an exceptional people & data analytics professional with 3-5 years of experience to drive excellence in a dynamic role, managing diverse projects, and contributing to our org-wide vision of performance excellence.
Article
How crop diversification drives climate resilience and boosts farmer income
Crop diversification isn't just a farming strategy; it's a catalyst for change. It propels farmers towards economic self-sufficiency, safeguards the environment, and fosters thriving communities.
Vacancy
Global Client Data Analyst
Seeking an exceptional data and analytics professional with 3+ years of experience and a passion for securing bigger harvests, healthier families, and richer soil for East African smallholder farmers.
Article
How soil testing is helping smallholders in Tanzania improve soil health
Smallholder farmers are intimately connected with their soil, relying on it for strong harvests to feed their families and communities, and to earn an income. For this year’s World Soil Day, we’re highlighting how smallholder farmers in Tanzania are investing in their futures by taking part in our new soil testing and training offering.
Article
Why investing in variety is crucial for farming success
Meet Angelus Mwapinga, a 50-year-old farmer from Tanzania. Determined to send his seven children to school, he leveraged credit from One Acre Fund to buy high quality farming inputs leading to a 20% increase in his harvest. His success means that he has been able to expand his farm, now growing potatoes and fruit tree seedlings. Diversification like this helps protect him against climate shocks.
Article
Seeds of Change: How early-maturing sunflower seeds are changing farmers’ fortunes
Discover how smallholder farmers in Tanzania are adopting early-maturing and drought-resistant sunflower seeds and are reshaping agricultural practices in the face of an ever-changing climate.
Article
Why healthy soils are critical to building smallholders’ climate resilience
Maintaining and improving soil health is essential to ensuring farmers can stay resilient in the face of increasing pressures on land and a changing climate. Healthy soils produce better harvests, meaning farmers can harvest more even on small areas of land, and healthy soils mean healthier crops that are more resilient to extreme weather events.
Article
Investing in a new generation of farming entrepreneurs
Our Executive Director, Andrew Youn, shares his vision on why investing in young farmers is key to addressing the challenges we face in agriculture today – from sustainably feeding the world’s growing population to finding lasting solutions to resilient, profitable agriculture.
Article
Strengthening Gender Inclusion in Agriculture Research
Women play a central role in African agriculture and do a substantial amount of work in food production, yet remain underrepresented in the sector.
Article
Let’s Keep Leveling the Ground to Break Gender Bias
We speak to Annie and Gloria, two women in our Fundraising team, about their careers, what inspires them for the future, and how they are celebrating women everywhere this year.
Farm finance
The Case for Farm Finance
This report highlights how meeting the needs of smallholder farmers in farm finance can unlock agricultural potential.
Article
10 Farmers Show Off Their Sunflower Seeds in Tanzania
This year, One Acre Fund Tanzania offered sunflower seeds and fertilizer as an add-on product farmers could sign up to buy on credit.
Article
Turning the Tables in Tanzania
Kija hoped to provide a better life for her children, so she pursued the training she needed to succeed.
Impact study
A Decade of Measurement and Impact
This Comprehensive Impact Report aims to take stock of One Acre Fund’s M&E in its first decade of operation, highlighting lessons learned, methods we have refined, and areas for further improvement.
Agricultural innovation
PICS Storage Bag Scale-Up
One Acre Fund Tanzania sought to encourage farmers to shell and store their maize early. One Acre Fund Tanzania performed several phases of trials with PICS bags, beginning with an assessment of impact and then moving on to adoption/feasibility.
Article
Taking the Market to the Farmer
Even when farmers have good harvests, a lack of market access prevents them from running businesses that truly thrive. Here's how One Acre Fund is solving rural Tanzania's market access problem.
Research
Agronomic Survey Data (2016-2020)
MEL agronomic survey data from 2016-2020.
Article
Get The Dirt On Soil Testing in Tanzania
In the farming business, ensuring long-term profitability means farmers must take good care of their most important asset: their land.
Article
Turning Sunflowers Into Sauce In Tanzania
In this two-part series, we’ve asked two sunflower farmers in Tanzania to show us how they use their sunflower seeds in cooking.
