With access to practical training, digital tools, and flexible financing, young farmers are turning curiosity and determination into tangible livelihoods. They are not waiting for opportunity; they are building it.
Closing the gender gap starts with understanding it. Collecting and analyzing data helps us identify where disparities exist, uncover insights into farmers' different experiences, test solutions, and shape programs that deliver fairer outcomes for all.
To better reflect the reality of farmers’ lives, our Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) team developed a new approach; whole-farm measurement. By measuring the whole-farm impact, we will develop stronger, data-driven strategies to better support farmers across all their crops, and ensure we continue to generate a meaningful impact for the farmers we serve.
When Delifa Chimtambala’s grocery business unfortunately closed, she turned to agriculture. Not only as a way to provide for her family, but also as a pathway to prosperity that would help her raise enough capital to start a new business.
Our direct-to-farmer services are intentionally designed to address the unique challenges farmers face. With strategies that encourage participation from both men and women, we are pleased to see that women make up more than 50% of our clients. In this piece, we highlight the approaches that make this possible and the strategies we are adopting to become more gender-sensitive
In 2024, One Acre Fund stayed focused on two core priorities: creating lasting, measurable impact for smallholder farmers and tracking that impact with rigor. By listening to farmers and continually monitoring, evaluating, and learning from our work, we are making steady progress toward our ambitious goal of serving 10 million farmers by 2030.
When Adeline Gwizimpundu dropped out of school, it was to support her parents on their subsistence farm. Now, many years later, she's found that farming can offer real and lasting routes to prosperity.
Our 2024 Annual Report is now finalised and live, and it makes for encouraging reading. In 2024, we managed to increase impact, build farmer resilience to the challenges they face, and created new pathways for their pursuit of prosperity.
When James Katungwe walks through his compound in central Malawi, he’s surrounded by quiet giants, rows of tall trees with branches swaying gently in the breeze. These trees are his children’s school fees, part of his son’s new house, a buffer against unpredictable weather patterns, and part of the legacy he will leave for his family.
What if a single act of generosity could amplify a young woman’s determination, support her to turn her hard work into realized dreams, improved livelihood and community impact? This is the power of smallholder farming when given the right support.
Female farmers like Alphonsine are essential to Africa's food production, yet they often lack the same access to resources as their male counterparts. If women had equal access to these resources, they could increase their farm harvest by 20–30 percent.
Eugine’s Asubila story is a testament to how smallholder agriculture is empowering women across Kenya – and sub-Saharan Africa – to become entrepreneurs by creating the means for them to set up new businesses.
2023 marked a second year of 50% growth in Burundi as we expanded to meet high demand for our program.
Investing in women smallholder farmers like Jeanne D'Arc Mbanira is critical to significantly increasing agricultural productivity, food security, and household prosperity.
Women smallholder farmers like Hilder Ongeri typically invest more of what they earn back into their families and communities than their male counterparts. This has knock-on effects for the generations that follow.
In Africa, young people like Taifa represent a significant demographic, with 70% of Sub-Saharan Africa under the age of 30. As this new wave of farmers like Taifa steps up to inherit the mantle from their predecessors, there is a compelling need to encourage even more young people to embrace farming.
Crop diversification isn't just a farming strategy; it's a catalyst for change. It propels farmers towards economic self-sufficiency and fosters thriving communities.
Starting as a pilot serving 150 farmers in 2018 in Niger State, our program in Nigeria has been hugely successful – in 2022, we served over 24,000 farmers. We are rapidly scaling and expanding our work, which has the potential to transform the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Nigeria’s smallholder farmers over the next decade.
Discover how smallholder farmers in Tanzania are adopting early-maturing and drought-resistant sunflower seeds and are reshaping agricultural practices.
This report provides a detailed breakdown of One Acre Fund's program impact by country in 2020.
This study demonstrates the potential of providing planting date decision support to farmers, based on real-time forecasts of soil moisture, combined with climatological information on rainfall and temperature seasonality.
This report provides a detailed breakdown of One Acre Fund's program impact by country in 2019.
In this two-part series, we’ve asked two sunflower farmers in Tanzania to show us how they use their sunflower seeds in cooking.
This strategy memo explains how One Acre Fund uses impact measurement to prioritize the highest impact products, phase out low-impact offerings, and constantly improve the products and services we offer.
