Our impact
We envision a world where all farmers have big harvests, healthy families, and rich soils.
Our Impact on Farmers’ Lives
By 2030, we aim to serve 10 million farmers—fully 10 percent of the families in the world living on less than $1 per person, per day. In 2023, we served 4.8 million farmers, both directly with a bundle of farm services and indirectly by improving access to farm services in entire regions, typically through partner organizations. Collectively, One Acre Fund farmers create hundreds of millions of dollars in new farm profits each year.
Read our 2023 annual report
In 2023, we continued to adapt to better serve farmers, prioritizing investments in climate resilience and creating new pathways to food and income security. In our latest annual report, we underline the transformative power of agricultural innovation on rural livelihoods and economies, and in ending global poverty.
We deliver impact for farmers as our bottom line.
See how we measure impact.
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Scale
4.8 million farmers served in 2023.
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Impact
*$421 million in new farm profits and assets.
*For this figure, we multiply the max. # of farmers reached in 2023 by the weighted avg impact/farmer realized through harvests in 2023, as we do not yet know late-2023 harvest results in all countries; hence the farmers used for measuring scale and impact may differ.
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Efficiency
Social Return on Investment: $3.20 new farm profits created for every $1 of donor investment.
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Staff
7,776 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 on climate resilience