Welcome to One Acre Fund

Africa is facing a growing food crisis. Already, one in six children do not survive to age five - mostly due to hunger-related causes. Record food shortages will only make the problem worse.

One Acre Fund is a new organization that helps East African farmers to grow their own way out of hunger. 75% of East Africans are farmers - the solution to their food crisis lies in their own fields.

Our core values:

	We help the poorest farmers in the world to grow more
	We don't hand out - we empower farmers with tools, and they pay us back
	We dream big - in 2009, we grew to 12,000 farm families, and we now serve 22,000
	We generate measurable impact - on average, we double farm income

Our Work:

Results:

Meet Francine

Francine has five children, ranging from six months old to twelve years old. Her family, like most Rwandan farm families, suffers a three-month annual “hunger season” – her children simply do not have enough to eat.

Last season, Francine planted a half-acre of land with One Acre Fund, using 140 pounds of seed potato, 80 pounds of fertilizer, and 40 pounds of climbing-bean seed.

She estimates that at harvest time, she will earn $200 more in profit than last year, even after repaying One Acre Fund for program fees. This might not sound like a lot, but it is a more than doubling of her farm income, and is enough to send all of her children to school.

Francine’s story is not exceptional – One Acre Fund farmers routinely get the largest harvests of their lives, and the incremental income has an enormous impact on the quality of life of their children. Best of all, they earned it for themselves!