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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Agricultural innovation

Maize Fertilizer Timing Trial Results

In 2015, One Acre Fund trialed plant morphology-based fertilizer timing training with smallholder farmers in western Kenya.

Agricultural innovation

Bush Bean Disease Management

We conducted trials to evaluate the effectiveness of various combinations of bean disease management products for increasing bean yields and profitability.

Agricultural innovation

Dairy Cow Care in Kenya

Many One Acre Fund farmers in Kenya own at least one dairy cow. However, most have only local breeds, and produce very little milk. We thought that by helping farmers to improve cow health and milk production, One Acre Fund might be able to generate impact for our farmers. In 2014 in Kenya, we conducted small trials. Our goal was to test and develop products that would allow farmers to boost their milk production, thus giving households more milk to consume and to sell.

Agricultural innovation

Soybean (2014)

This report shares the Soybean trial results from research station and on-farm field trials conducted in Rwanda and Kenya in 2014.

Impact study

Solar lights RCT summary

Summary of findings for study estimating the level of cost savings from purchasing solar lamps in Kenya and Rwanda.

Agricultural innovation

Kenya Finger Millet Trial

This study demonstrates the potential of reintroducing finger millet to 45,000 smallholder farmers as an alternative cereal to disease-susceptible maize varieties commonly grown in Kenya.

Social enterprise

The art and science of delivery

This white paper highlights how One Acre Fund has developed a model for distributing agricultural technologies directly to Africa’s poor farmers.

Agricultural innovation

An Introduction to East African Smallholder Agriculture

An introduction to East African Smallholder Agriculture to provide basic technical understanding of the various farming practices and why they matter to ensure long term soil health and maximize farmer production and profit.

Agricultural innovation

Kenya Collard Greens Trial

During the 2013 long rains in Kenya, One Acre Fund offered 60,000 program farmers improved collard greens seed and plant management training. The trial tested farmers' adoption of the crop and transplanting methods.

Social enterprise

Measuring to Improve vs. Improving Measurement

This blog discusses what is more valuable; organizations measuring for their own improvement, or from the social sector improving on the measurement tools and techniques available to organizations in the first place.

Impact study

Chwele 2009 RCT summary

Summary of results for our maize yields study in Chwele district, Kenya, 2009

Impact study

6 Month Interim Performance Report (2006)

Download One Acre Fund's first performance report (from March – October 2006), which offers a frank look at hard metrics, which we use to guide every step of our operations.