
One Acre Fund
Model & Strategy
One Acre Fund serves one-acre subsistence farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa – one of the largest groups of “forgotten poor” in the world. Studies have shown that these farmers could at least quadruple their own farm yields with appropriate inputs and education. By providing a complete, functioning market system, One Acre Fund makes it possible for even the poorest and most rural farmer to generate more income and permanently solve their hunger problem.
With a focus on delivering services to female heads of household, One Acre Fund reaches the most severely hunger-affected with a comprehensive investment package of high-quality seed and fertilizer, education courses, and access to output markets. Agro-inputs, training, a collective sales model to enable price leverage for small scale producers, and crop insurance provide a whole solution to poverty that leads to self-driven, permanent growth out of hunger.
Kenya was OAF’s first country of operations — they’ve now expanded to Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, and Zambia, and are employing 8,700 full-time staff across nine countries.



Andrew Youn is the founder of One Acre Fund. Andrew’s passion for this work stems from his lifelong involvement in empowering disadvantaged communities to stand on their own. Andrew graduated from Yale University with honors, worked as a management consultant to Fortune 500 companies with Mercer Consulting and received his M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
IMPACT
In 2021, One Acre Fund served 1.4 million farm families in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Kenya was OAF’s first country of operations—they’ve now expanded to Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi and Zambia, and are employing 8,700 full-time staff across nine countries.
In 2021, One Acre Fund’s farmers saw their incomes rise by $104 and were paying back loans at a 92% repayment rate.
One Acre Fund News
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One Acre Fund and SIRUM Win 2020 Audacious ProjectHoused at TED, The Audacious Project is a collaborative funding initiative that is unlocking social impact on a grand scale. Every year we select and…Jun 2020
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Andrew Youn: 3 Reasons We Can Win the Fight Against PovertyHalf of the world’s poorest people have something in common: they’re small farmers. In this eye-opening talk, activist Andrew Youn shows how his group, One…Jun 2016
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One Acre Fund is Energizing the Green Revolution in Africa“In the fight against global poverty, there are very few hugely powerful leverage points,” says One Acre Fund founder, Andrew Youn. “The majority of the world’s poor…Jun 2015
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One Acre Fund: "Social Good = Scale x Impact (Who Knew?)"“At One Acre Fund, we are working to de-isolate these two critical factors, and achieve both meaningful scale and net impact. We’ve grown more than…Jul 2014
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This is what planting trees does for smallholder farmers! 🌱 Not only do farmers like Friday Mundwa benefit from mo… https://t.co/PBzAgdoakP
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Did you know that 'duka' is the Swahili word for store or shop? Our dukas, like this one in Tanzania, offer agricu… https://t.co/Agpv5tVCKJ
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We support farmers like Angelo with our financing model. This provides inputs on credit, training and composting te… https://t.co/MUByYSM3Ae
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Quality farm supplies can only get farmers so far; knowledge and training play a big role in their success. 💡 For… https://t.co/zlCSGOsxdR
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"I am now able to harvest 250kg of beans. Before One Acre Fund I used to harvest 100kg." 🌱 Farmer Ntirenganya Jac… https://t.co/sK7TlmuB0f
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Today is #WorldHungerDay 🥕. Did you know that smallholder farmers produce food for a substantial proportion of the… https://t.co/v0WEYHgYUE
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A quick look at our work in Malawi... 🇲🇼 Farmers served: 95,000 🇲🇼 Active since 2013 We work with Malawian farmers… https://t.co/E1dvv47uiD
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Happy #AfricaDay to all the hard working smallholder farmers bringing food to our plates. 🌍💚 Today let's celebrate… https://t.co/WyqRf0AF7g
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“One Acre Fund has made it easier to access supplies; I save time, energy, and money to focus on improving my farm,… https://t.co/ywDLLxYnlY
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One Acre Fund CEO shares an important operational update about the Tupande program and how our work is changing to… https://t.co/TTl6yoAgho
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"Human-caused warming has roughly doubled the chance of a weak long rain season." That's bad news for smallholder… https://t.co/7LJlJRKMKP
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Last week @JoaquinCastrotx and @RepYoungKim introduced the Fostering Innovation in Development Act (#FIGDA) bill in… https://t.co/aYhI7FIFNj
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Maintaining and improving soil health is essential to ensuring farmers stay resilient despite increasing pressures… https://t.co/UIpAni0Taf
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We recently provided farmers in Tanzania with tree seedlings for fruit trees, timber trees, and soil health-improvi… https://t.co/BS5evyTM5J
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We need new thinking to support #smallholders to adapt to increasing crises. Great news that @JoaquinCastrotx &… https://t.co/CEt6PvUrlM