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Empowering women farmers: One Acre Fund’s commitment to gender-smart agriculture

Our direct-to-farmer services are intentionally designed to address the unique challenges farmers face. With strategies that encourage participation from both men and women, we are pleased to see that women make up more than 50% of our clients. In this piece, we highlight the approaches that make this possible and the strategies we are adopting to become more gender-sensitive

Keziah Danjuma
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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.

A woman smallholder farmer plants an avocado seedling in her field.
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More Than A Tree

We do tree planting differently. Our initiative to plant 1 billion trees is led by smallholder farmers and every seedling planted is an opportunity for them and their families to prosper.

Farmer Esther Wangari at her local tree nursery
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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.

Claudine Ayinkamiye smiling at the camera
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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.

Angelus Mwapinga smiles at the camera
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One Acre Fund's Global Croptake: The data in depth

Smallholder farmers are witnessing the devastating impacts of the climate crisis on their crops, harvests, diets, and families. This is not a hypothetical future risk; it is a reality they are facing today.

Seeds held in someone's hand
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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.

Trinah Mwiinga stands laughing in her field in Zambia
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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.

One Acre Fund field officer Alphonsine Nyiransabimana
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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.

Why healthy soils are critical to building smallholders’ climate resilience
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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.

A farmer and his field officer tend to his winter bean crop in Malawi
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