Our impact
We envision a world where all farmers have big harvests, healthy families, and rich soils.
Farmer-driven impact
Our goal is to help farmers bolster farm productivity, build their resilience, and strengthen their access to markets. We deliver impact through scalable direct-to-farmer initiatives and our growing systems-level initiatives. Ultimately we measure every initiative by the financial impact it generates for farmers. Our 2030 goal is to deliver $1 billion in impact per year to 10 million farming households, and cumulatively plant 1 billion trees.
Read our 2024 annual report
This annual report provides an overview of our recent work and results. 2024 was a year of reaching new milestones in our service to clients and investing in improvements for the long term. In particular, we hope the profiles of Asterie Ntahonvukiye and Eugine Asubila contained within the report make clear how whole communities and future generations benefit when we serve farmers well.
We deliver impact for farmers as our bottom line.
See how we measure impact.
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Scale
5.5 million farmers served in 2024.
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Impact
*$434 million in new farm profits and assets.
*In calculating this figure, we multiply the maximum number of farmers reached in 2024 by the weighted average impact per farmer realized through harvests that took place during the calendar year 2024, since we do not yet know the harvests and impacts of plantings that took place in late 2024 in certain countries. Hence the farmers used for scale measurement and impact measurement may not necessarily be the same. -
Efficiency
Social Return on Investment: $4.2 new farm profits created for every $1 of donor investment.
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Staff
9,487 staff employed, largely in rural areas.
Big harvests
Smallholder farmers depend on the food they grow to feed their families and sell for income. On average, the farmers we directly serve increase their farm income by 40%+ per year —from the same plot of land—and produce a surplus for the first time. Learn more about our impact on income growth
Healthy families
Farmers we serve directly are more likely to have a steady supply of food all year. They also grow and buy more nutritious food for their families—like beans, fruit, vegetables, and eggs—which is particularly important for children under the age of two. Learn more about our impact on food security
Rich soils
Farmers we serve directly are more likely to enrich their soils with compost and to plant trees alongside their crops, which both capture carbon and build farmers’ assets. One Acre Fund farmers have planted 100 million trees to date, and are positioned to plant 1 billion trees total by 2030. Learn more about our impact