Stories
Learn more about the people we serve, the challenges they face and see our work in action.
Stories
Organisational update: Transitions in One Acre Fund’s CEO role and addition of a new leadership role
We share an update on changes at One Acre Fund’s senior-most leadership level.
How innovation is shaping Malawi's agricultural landscape
Smallholder farmers in Malawi play a vital role in the country's economy, but they face production challenges – due to limited resources and access and changing weather patterns. Learn more about what we're doing to support them.
Small Crops with Big Impact: Tapping into vegetable farming for farmer prosperity and nutrition
Our work with Burundi's vegetable farmers highlights how vegetable farming is emerging as a promising sustainable agricultural practice.
Seeds of Change: How early-maturing sunflower seeds are changing farmers’ fortunes
Discover how smallholder farmers in Tanzania are adopting early-maturing and drought-resistant sunflower seeds and are reshaping agricultural practices in the face of an ever-changing climate.
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.
Environmental sustainability: committing to farm-level resilience
A look at how we equip farmers for greater climate resilience.
Financial sustainability: impact growth via "revenue engines"
A look at how we have been using existing channels to scale revenue opportunities for farmers.
Transparently sharing the reasons for staff reduction in Kenya
One Acre Fund CEO shares an important operational update about the Tupande program.
How climate change is impacting smallholders in Malawi
This Earth Day - a day dedicated to raising awareness of the challenges our Earth faces and galvanizing action to protect it - we’re highlighting how smallholder farming communities are being affected by climate change.
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.
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.
Cyclone Freddy Causes Devastation For Malawian Farm Families
Earlier this week, southern Malawi was devastated by Cyclone Freddy, the longest and most energetic tropical storm ever recorded.
How Agriculture Financing Solutions Help Families Achieve Food Security
Smallholder farmers face many challenges, but one of the toughest is accessing the finance they need to buy essential farming products like seed and fertilizer.
Why Climate-Smart Agriculture Is So Important For Smallholder Farmers
Enabling farmers to adopt climate-smart approaches to farming helps build more sustainable food systems that protect the environment, improve smallholder livelihoods, and create new business opportunities. This is critically important as the world grapples with the combined challenges of climate change and economic crisis.
The Case For Farming Insurance To Help Smallholders Build Climate Resilience
Farming insurance is an emerging tool in climate risk management that can help ensure smallholders are able to plant again the following season even if crops fail in the current one, and encourage them to take risks to invest more in their farms even when the climate is so unpredictable.
One Acre Fund's Climate Commitments
We’re launching a 10-year climate strategy committed to building the resilience of smallholder farmers in the face of a changing climate.
Smallholder Farmers Need to be Higher Up the Climate Agenda – Here’s Why
Only by equipping smallholder farmers with the tools they need to withstand the impacts of climate change can we achieve sustainable and equitable food systems.
Feeding Sub-Saharan Africa: The challenges we face and how we can achieve food security
Our Executive Director talks about the drivers of the unfolding food security crisis, and shares his vision on how we can ensure access to healthy diets for all sustainably and inclusively.
Increasing Equity in Compensation and Benefits
Our Executive Director introduces the organization-wide changes we rolled out last month as part of our work to improve equity in our pay, benefits, and performance management systems.
2021 Annual Report: Cultivating New Frontiers
Our Executive Director shares how we innovated to create additional, diverse pathways to improve food security and livelihoods among farmers in a challenging farming year.
Introducing Tupande by One Acre Fund
One Acre Fund Kenya launches new services for farmers under a new name.
Essmart and One Acre Fund Partner to Expand Farmer Services
After successfully piloting farmer services in Bihar, India, we’re now partnering with Essmart, a last-mile distribution company, to increase access to agricultural products for rural farmers in Northern India.
Evolving our Enrolment to Serve More Farmers in Kenya
When Sally, a Marketing Strategist, joined our Kenya program in 2011, we were serving 28,000 farmers. Today, that number has grown to nearly half a million. She tells the story of how our enrolment process has evolved in this time.
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.
