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10 Things You Need to Know About PulsesTo celebrate the UN's declaration of 2016 as the International Year of Pulses, we provide some facts about the crucial crop.
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10 Things You Need to Know About PulsesTo celebrate the UN's declaration of 2016 as the International Year of Pulses, we provide some facts about the crucial crop.
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Harvesting the Best Sukuma In TownWhen it comes to healthy eating, farmers in Muyayi, Kenya, say they now have a reason to smile again.
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Turning Sunflowers Into Sauce In TanzaniaIn this two-part series, we’ve asked two sunflower farmers in Tanzania to show us how they use their sunflower seeds in cooking.
Social enterprise
Smallholder farmers and business This study looks at how pioneering companies and organizations have succeeded in enrolling smallholder
farmers in productivity-enhancing schemes, sustainably and at scale – either as buyers of produce or sellers of products, services or equipment.
Failures
Lessons from One Acre Fund’s First Uganda PilotIn 2008, One Acre Fund conducted a pilot in eastern Uganda, which was its first pilot program outside of Kenya. This report details the lessons learned from the lack of success in this pilot program.
Agricultural innovation
Kenya Custom Fertilizer Blends TrialThis report shares the results of custom fertilizer blend trials that were conducted on farmer fields in the long rain season of 2015 in western Kenya.
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How One Acre Fund Is Serving Farmers In MalawiA brief introduction to our pilot program in Malawi - started in 2013 with just 71 farmers.
Impact study
Getting the Counterfactual RightIn this memo, we share our experience addressing selection bias through experimenting with four different approaches: propensity score matching, randomized control trials, newly enrolled farmers, and difference-in-difference.
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Why One Acre Fund Trains Farmers in CompostingBy creating their own compost and then using it during planting, farmers are able to return much-needed nutrients to their fields.
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Kenya Celebrates Working Moms on Mother’s DayThe Women's Leadership Council trains our Kenyan team to succeed in both work and personal life.