Since 2019 we’ve been on a mission to equip the smallholder farmers we work with to plant 1 billion trees across sub-Saharan Africa by 2030. This year we reached an exciting milestone when Kenyan farmer Esther Wangari planted the 250 millionth tree!
Planting trees alongside crops (otherwise known as agroforestry) – is one of the most powerful and environmentally impactful tools farmers have to increase income, food security and prosperity for their families.
For every farmer who plants a tree, that tree is so much #MoreThanATree. Every seedling planted is an opportunity for a smallholder farmer to plant more income, climate resilience and prosperity for them and their families.
Hear from Esther as she explains why a tree is so much #MoreThanATree to her and her fellow farmers.
At One Acre Fund we do tree-planting differently; our approach is farmer-led and community-first. Smallholder farmers like Esther lead the way to plant trees that benefit their families, their future and their communities.
“When I make money from my trees and my avocados it helps me to pay the children's school fees. It also helps me to run my business and it helps me in terms of feeding my family as well,“ says Esther.
For farmers like Esther, every tree they plant is more than just a tree: they’re planting income growth, climate resilience and prosperity.
“If we plant more trees, it helps to improve the soil's health, which in turn improves our harvests and means we can increase our incomes.”
We’re 250 million trees closer to achieving our 1 billion trees goal, but with your help we can do more! The trees you’re helping to plant are so much #MoreThanATree: they mean income growth, climate resilience, food security and prosperity for individual families and communities across the continent.
Invest in our farmer-led tree planting initiative and help improve the lives of farmers like Esther today.
For Friday Ndashe, who manages a tree nursery close to Kabwe in Zambia, running a tree nursery is a “joyful endeavor” with many benefits - for him and his local community.
Discover how agroforestry - the practice of planting trees among crops - offers smallholder farmers like Baraka, Dunstan and Claudine a variety of benefits.
In just the first season farming with One Acre Fund, Claudine Ayinkamiye, a 30-year-old farmer from Rwanda, managed to produce 900 kilos of potatoes and maize. Thanks to this surplus, she was able to invest in different crops and trees, making her better equipped to withstand erratic weather due to climate change.
Trina Mwiinga grows trees on her farm in Zambia with One Acre Fund. In addition to the benefits trees provide - boosting her crop harvest, by protecting them from climate breakdown and providing shade for her animals from extreme heat - she is paid to look after them by One Acre Fund.
