70% of the world's poor are rural families who make their living through small-scale farming. One Acre Fund models a solution; through a complete bundle of services - last-mile delivery of farming supplies, training, post-harvest support, and financing - enabling farmers to build a permanent pathway to prosperity. The typical farmer in the areas where we work lives on less than $1 a day - your gift will help them increase their yearly profits by nearly half, allowing them to overcome hunger.
The world's extreme poor are increasingly concentrated in a single demographic: smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. They consume nearly everything they grow often with little surplus left over to sell for income. Crop yields are particularly low, and many families face an annual "hunger season," a period of meal skipping and substitution before the next harvest. Without access to modern farming tools and training, these families struggle to break generational cycles of poverty.
Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund models a new solution for Africa's smallholder farmers. Through a complete bundle of services - which includes financing and last-mile delivery of farming supplies; training; and post-harvest support - we enable farmers to significantly increase their crop yields and build permanent pathways to prosperity.
We benchmark our success on our ability to make more farmers more prosperous. Every year, we rigorously measure our results against a control group in each country of operation. On average, farmers working with One Acre Fund increase their incomes on supported activities by at least 40%, and realize more than 120% return on their investment. With the improved harvest, farmers are able to end hunger in their homes, and invest profit from surplus sales into education for their children.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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