1. One Acre Fund
Farmers First
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2. One Acre Fund Proven impact: double farm profit per acre
We serve one-acre farm families in East Africa
We don’t give hand-outs, we invest in hard-working families so they can help themselves
Proven impact: double farm profit per acre
Non-profit revenue model: farmers pay for services
6 years old – starting initial scale up
We currently serve 135,000 farm families
Will grow our core service program to over 1 million farmers with the next 8 years.
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3. Our client
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4. Where we work: East Africa
One Acre Fund works in East Africa, in the countries of Kenya, Rwanda and Burundi
Kenya
Rwanda and Burundi
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5. Our Client Most of the world’s poor are farmers.
Talk about my personal involvement
Most of the world’s poor are farmers.
They have a remarkably uniform dilemma.
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6. Feed a family of six with one acre of land, and a simple hand hoe
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7. It is not working. Our families are not food secure.
One in seven of our kids dies before age 5.
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8. Farming is the world’s most dominant profession and biggest opportunity
Most of the world’s poor are farmers
Their profession is to grow food
They use out-dated tools and techniques
Zero existing capital
Simple tools and education can double farm income
This is the goal of One Acre Fund
SIMPLE technology (not 100 years ago)
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9. How: our program model
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10. Innovation 1: Complete “market in a box” for one-acre farmers
Producer Groups
Productive asset loan (seed & fertilizer)
Training
Harvest Market Access
Certificate woman: Rose Nabangi
Education: simple things.
This is not just a farm field, it means 12,000 meals. We’re scaling to 100 farmers!
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11. Innovation 2: Distribution
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12. Scalable impact One Acre Fund Field Unit: One field officer …
provides our service bundle …
to 140 farm families
Producer Groups
Seed and Fertilizer on Loan
Training
Harvest Market Access
Certificate woman: Rose Nabangi
Education: simple things.
This is not just a farm field, it means 12,000 meals. We’re scaling to 100 farmers!
With 700 children in those families
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13. Getrude’s family
BEFORE
BEFORE
AFTER
Getrude’s Family
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14. The tallest maize Getrude has ever seen
Read off basically.
The best harvest of Getrude’s life
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15. Rwandan farmers cooperating together
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16. Spacing seeds for the first time
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17. Current Status and Vision
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18. Current status Scale: Impact: Sustainability: Families served
2x net rev per acre
Sustainability:
% of Operations covered by
Program revenues
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19. Vision in eight years Direct service Partnership with government
Help build a broader
movement
We will directly serve 1.1 million families per year (5 million children)
We will have 5,000 field staff spread evenly over rural areas
We will be working in 5-6 countries
We will represent a significant constituency – for example, 12% of Rwanda’s entire population
We will use this as a platform to work together with African governments
We will work together with targeted, large microfinance institutions to help them expand into rural agriculture lending
There are about 40 million extremely subsistence farm families in Sub-Saharan Africa – growing by 1 million per year. We need to think ambitiously, at scale.
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20. Thank You!
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