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Financial sustainability: impact growth via "revenue engines"
A look at how we have been using existing channels to scale revenue opportunities for farmers.
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Impact Challenge: Innovating to Double Farmer Profit
Our countries and global departments share how we’re innovating to multiply farmer impact by 2024 and deliver $1 billion in impact in terms of food and income by 2030.
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Celebrating Women Farmers: the Backbone of Africa's Rural Agriculture
Women farmers tend to invest more in their homes and families, thereby fuelling the prosperity of their communities.
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Meet The African Billionaire Advocating for Farming
Why is Strive Masiyiwa, one of the continent’s most prominent CEOs, so invested in the agriculture sector?
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We Asked: What Role Do Today’s Youth See For Themselves in Agribusiness?
Across East Africa, people are talking about the role of young people in agriculture. So how do young people themselves feel about all this?
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Why Kenyan Feminists Should Advocate for Financial Equality
Studies show when women have more money, they’re more likely to save and invest in their families. Yet, 29% of Kenyan women still can’t access basic financial services.
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Social Entrepreneurs: Invest in Trees
Investing in trees might not sound like the most exciting investment, but trees can offer financial and social returns for years to come.
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How One Kenyan Farmer is Building Success Through Business
Wycklyfe Mwanje is investing his farm income by starting local businesses and creating jobs.
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Patiently Planting Grevillea Trees in Kenya
Though his neighbors question James' decision to plant Grevillea trees, he knows his hard work will pay off.
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Why Growing Trees Makes Perfect Sense for Smallholder Farmers
For the thousands of smallholder farmers we work with, growing trees can offer an incredible return on investment in just a few years.
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What to Read on Agriculture Microfinance
With the value in providing microfinance loans to farmers higher than ever, we've compiled a list of resources that explain just how worthwhile this type of financing can be.
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Sprouting Seeds of Prosperity
Andria Mukamazimpaka’s investments in her farm and small business have enabled her family to thrive.
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Opening A Clinic With Her Harvests
Mangalena Nsaiga used the income from her farm to help her daughter Cissy open a pharmacy and medical clinic in Uganda.
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Why One Acre Fund Farmers Are Excited About Trees
Two grevillea farmers explain just how great these trees have been for their farm's health and productivity.
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10 Years With One Acre Fund
Theresa Wanyama was one of the first farmers to join One Acre Fund. She hasn't looked back since.
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Bridging The Microfinance Gap For Smallholder Farmers
While 55 percent of Africa’s population is engaged in agricultural livelihoods, only approximately 1 percent of bank lending across the continent goes to the agricultural sector.
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10 Farmers Show Off Their Sunflower Seeds in Tanzania
This year, One Acre Fund Tanzania offered sunflower seeds and fertilizer as an add-on product farmers could sign up to buy on credit.
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A New Partnership for Africa's Smallholder Farmers
One Acre Fund and the Global Innovation Fund launch a new partnership to build customized solutions for boosting crop productivity and fighting hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Taking the Market to the Farmer
Even when farmers have good harvests, a lack of market access prevents them from running businesses that truly thrive. Here's how One Acre Fund is solving rural Tanzania's market access problem.
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Harvesting the Best Sukuma In Town
When it comes to healthy eating, farmers in Muyayi, Kenya, say they now have a reason to smile again.
