Scale Innovations

Social enterprise
This sampling of scale innovations projects suggests the magnitude of the challenges that One Acre
Fund needs to address in order to make a dent in Africa’s hunger problem.

Our scale innovation team is like an R&D lab for operational improvements to the way One Acre Fund reaches farmers. Our field-based “Scale Innovations” department that identifies and tests key operational improvements to our delivery model, with a goal of achieving greater overall efficiency (i.e., the ratio of clients served to operational complexity) without sacrificing impact for clients. Our Scale Innovations department is distinct from our Product Innovations department, which is tasked with testing and refining the products we offer clients for maximum impact. These two departments correspond to the two axes on the above graphic and multiply one another’s effectiveness.