Our impact
Our impact

Insights and data library

By transparently sharing our data, insights, successes, and failures, we aim to provide a comprehensive portrayal of our overall impact.  We think of impact as our "North Star", and rigorous measurement is the only way to know if we are heading in the right direction.

A field office in Kamuli District, Uganda, trains farmers on planting practices.

Four Mindsets That Accelerate Nonprofit Growth

Here, we reflect on the four mindsets we used to set targets, develop financial models, measure our impact, and build an organizational culture that helped us achieve exponential growth. Read now

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Teso 2017 RCT Summary

Summary of results for our maize and beans production impact study in Teso district, Kenya, 2017.

Impact study

How Nonprofits Can Drive Healthy Growth Using SROI

This article explores why we believe social return on investment is an underutilized yet surprisingly flexible tool for making strong resource allocation decisions that maximize nonprofit impact.

Impact study

2017 Randomized Control Trial Summary

One Acre Fund commissioned an RCT to study our program’s impact on maize and bean yields in the 2017 long rains season in Kenya’s Teso District.

Impact study

Difference in Difference Impact Study

In addition to the randomized control trial (RCT), One Acre Fund uses the Difference-in-Difference (diff-in-diff) statistical technique to verify our everyday measurements. This memo covers our most comprehensive difference-in-difference studies.

Agricultural innovation

Irish Potato Fungicide (2016)

In this trial, One Acre Fund aimed to assess whether potato yields might increase from the application of
Mancozeb fungicide to control late blight. This data was used to evaluate the potential impact of helping farmers gain access to fungicides.

Agricultural innovation

Sorghum Fertilizer and Planting Methods (2016)

This report shares the results of sorghum research conducted to determine the effect of using recommended One Acre Fund planting methods and fertilizer on yield and profit, compared with local planting practices.

Impact study

Measuring farm profit

Measuring farm profit is surprisingly complicated. This paper explains the assumptions we make when calculating farm profit, and why.

Impact study

Comprehensive Impact Report

This report takes stock of One Acre Fund’s M&E as we complete our first decade of operation, highlighting lessons learned, methods we have refined, and areas for further improvement.

Impact study

A Decade of Measurement and Impact

This Comprehensive Impact Report aims to take stock of One Acre Fund’s M&E in its first decade of operation, highlighting lessons learned, methods we have refined, and areas for further improvement.

Agricultural innovation

Kenya Maize Storage Loan Trial

One Acre Fund invested in post-harvest storage products to overcome the biophysical barriers to farmers storing grain, allowing them to take advantage of seasonal price fluctuations. In 2014 and 2015, One Acre Fund trialed a home storage loan program to test various methods to overcome financial burdens.

Agricultural innovation

PICS Storage Bag Scale-Up

 One Acre Fund Tanzania sought to encourage farmers to shell and store their maize early. One Acre Fund Tanzania performed several phases of trials with PICS bags, beginning with an assessment of impact and then moving on to adoption/feasibility.

Agricultural innovation

Irish Potato Intercropping - Rwanda (2016)

In Rwanda in 2016, One Acre Fund conducted a trial of Kinigi potatoes in non-traditional areas, both mono cropped and intercropped with maize, in order to test yields and farmer opinions of the variety in those areas and to determine if it would be more profitable to promote potatoes in monocropped or intercropped systems.

Agricultural innovation

Maize MLND Variety Test

This report shares the results from the One Acre Fund Research Station: Gucha-Kisii Crop Research Station of a potential MLND resistant variety that was tested for performance against a currently offered maize variety in the presence of MLND.

Agricultural innovation

Maize Legume Rotation Trial (2016)

This report shares the results from Ekero Crop Research Station where One Acre Fund tested the effect of growing maize in the long-rain season after growing soybeans or bush beans in the preceding short-rain season.

Impact study

Spillover Effect Kenya Analysis

This report reviews an analysis One Acre Fund undertook to better understand the extent to which farmers who live in our program areas, but who are not enrolled in the program, still receive some program benefit.