Climate-smart agriculture

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Why agriculture is important for Burundi's new generation of farmers

Younger farmers like Asterie are inheriting the mantle of farming from their parents at a time of new challenges. It is crucial for them to acquire smart farming skills to ensure that they are still able to harvest well and support their families.

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More Than A Tree: How trees are changing Esther’s future

On most days, you will find Esther Wangari tending to her farm, located deep in the heart of Kirinyaga County, in Kenya’s central highlands. Bordering her maize and beans fields, Esther’s latest passion – tree planting – thrives. For this Kenyan smallholder farmer, her new venture is more than just about planting trees; it is also about her livelihood and securing her family’s future.

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How tree nurseries are changing fortunes in Kenya and Burundi

In Kenya and Burundi, farmers like Wycliffe Nzaga, Eunice Nguu, and Sylvie Nahimana have witnessed first-hand the detrimental effects of drastic changes on farming.

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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.

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Friday Ndashe: Planting trees and growing futures in Zambia

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.

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How crop diversification drives 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 and fosters thriving communities.

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Claudine Ayinkamiye: Farmer and tree entrepreneur

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.

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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 farming shocks.

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The transformative power of trees in Zambia

Trina Mwiinga grows trees on her farm in Zambia with One Acre Fund. In addition to the benefits trees provide - boosting her crop harves and providing shade for her animals from extreme heat - she is paid to look after them by One Acre Fund.

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A field officer’s mission: Planting the seeds of resilience within her community

Fifty-two-year-old One Acre Fund field officer Alphonsine Nyiransabimana dreams of a thriving agricultural industry in Rwanda, where farmers can earn a decent living. She is working to fulfill this mission by helping farmers in her local community access credit and quality seeds so that they can increase their harvests and adapt to extreme weather.

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Why we’re introducing disease-resistant potato seeds in Rwanda

In 2022, One Acre Fund Rwanda launched a program to distribute high-yielding, disease-resistant potato seed to the country’s smallholders to improve harvests and incomes.

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Small Crops with Big Impact: Tapping into vegetable farming for farmer prosperity and nutrition

Our work with Burundi's vegetable farmers highlights how vegetable farming is emerging as a promising sustainable agricultural practice.

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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.

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Improving farmers’ livelihoods through income diversification in Uganda

One Acre Fund has recently adjusted our support for Ugandan smallholder farmers to better suit their needs.

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Environmental sustainability: committing to farm-level resilience

A look at how we equip farmers for greater climate resilience.

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Why healthy soils are critical to building smallholders’ resilience

Maintaining and improving soil health is essential to ensuring farmers can stay resilient in the face of increasing pressures on land. 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.

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Why Climate-Smart Agriculture Is So Important For Smallholder Farmers

Enabling farmers to adopt climate-smart approaches to farming helps build more sustainable food systems that protect the environment, improve smallholder livelihoods, and create new business opportunities. This is critically important as the world grapples with the combined challenges of climate change and economic crisis.

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Smallholder Farmers Need to be Higher Up the Climate Agenda – Here’s Why

Only by equipping smallholder farmers with the tools they need to withstand the impacts of climate change can we achieve sustainable and equitable food systems.

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Feeding Sub-Saharan Africa: The challenges we face and how we can achieve food security

Our Executive Director talks about the drivers of the unfolding food security crisis, and shares his vision on how we can ensure access to healthy diets for all sustainably and inclusively.

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Three Tips to Help your Farm Cope with Climate Change in East Africa

East Africa has seen several weather pattern changes in the recent past. Here, we share climate-smart agriculture tips to help farmers in the region cope better with unpredictable weather.

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The Benefits of Growing Millet and Other Drought-Resistant Crops

"I expect to harvest every time I plant millet, even in the seasons when my village receives little rainfall."

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What Climate Change Means for Agriculture in Africa

Farmers who depend on rain to grow crops are already feeling the effects of our changing climate.