Innovation

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Improving farmers’ livelihoods through income diversification in Uganda

One Acre Fund has recently adjusted our support for Ugandan smallholder farmers to better suit their needs.

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Why healthy soils are critical to building smallholders’ climate resilience

Maintaining and improving soil health is essential to ensuring farmers can stay resilient in the face of increasing pressures on land and a changing climate. Healthy soils produce better harvests, meaning farmers can harvest more even on small areas of land, and healthy soils mean healthier crops that are more resilient to extreme weather events.

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Investing in a new generation of farming entrepreneurs

Our Executive Director, Andrew Youn, shares his vision on why investing in young farmers is key to addressing the challenges we face in agriculture today – from sustainably feeding the world’s growing population to finding lasting solutions to resilient, profitable agriculture.

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Using Mobile Tech to Shape Smallholder Farming in Rwanda

With a simple feature phone, Rwanda's smallholder farmers have access to the quality farming inputs and training they need to grow more food and earn more money.

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Four Ways Tech has Changed how we Serve Farmers During the Pandemic

We turned to technology to keep more than one million farming families farming through the pandemic. Here's how.

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Digital Innovations: One Acre Fund’s Experience in the Field

A One Acre Fund case study, produced in partnership with USAID, details our approach to digital solutions and proposes key learnings for the future.

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Digital Innovations: One Acre Fund’s Experience in the Field

A One Acre Fund case study, produced in partnership with USAID, details our approach to digital solutions and proposes key learnings for the future.

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Using Technology to Support Farming in the Face of COVID-19

In our new reality of a global health pandemic, we have turned to technology to keep agriculture open for business.

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From Seed to Soap: Delivering a Health Response to COVID-19

At a time of a global health crisis, we are drawing on our deep delivery expertise, trusted community ties, and commitment to putting Farmers First, to respond to emerging farmer needs.

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Three Tips to Help your Farm Cope with Climate Change in East Africa

It's an exciting time to be a techie and humanitarian in East Africa. One Acre Fund's former Global Director of Technology explains why.

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One Acre Fund Rwanda Launches Joint Venture to Produce Maize Seed

In 2019, One Acre Fund started producing hybrid maize seed in Rwanda with two domestic partners. We believe it’s a game-changer for farmers in the country. Here’s why.

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5 Digital Innovations Making A Difference Outside The City

Cutting-edge technology isn’t just for the big city. Here’s how new innovations are making a difference across rural Kenya.

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Here's how Mobile Phones Are Making Difference in Kenya's Farmers' Lives

A look at the huge impact digitized loan repayments is having on Kenyan smallholder farmers.

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How One Acre Fund's Hotline Enhances Customer Service in Kenya

Our Customer Engagement Team receives insights into the plights and successes of our clients through our hotlines.

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Using Mobile Technology to Benefit Smallholder Farmers

With many of our farmers in hard-to-access rural areas, mobile technology enables them to stay connected and informed.

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Calling For A Distribution Revolution

If we can innovate cost-effective, scalable ways to distribute agriculture technologies to the millions of smallholder farmers who demand them, we will unlock a huge market opportunity—and our best chance to feed the world.

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Dairy Trials Aim to Improve Cow Health and Milk Production

Developing products that would allow farmers to boost their milk production, potentially giving households more milk to consume and to sell.

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Why We Reformulated Our Organizational Vision

As we head into our tenth year of operation, we are as committed as ever to helping farmers improve their productivity and incomes.

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Get The Dirt On Soil Testing in Tanzania

In the farming business, ensuring long-term profitability means farmers must take good care of their most important asset: their land.

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5 One Acre Fund Trials with Exciting Implications for Soil Health

We discuss a few innovative strategies we have successfully tested recently, and how these efforts benefit our farmers' productivity and incomes.

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Research and Development at One Acre Fund

We provide insight into our research and development process, which we use to expand our products and services for our farmers.