About the non-profit

One Acre Fund was started with the goal of completely re-thinking how to solve the chronic hunger problem in Africa. We don’t give food away – handing out food will never solve hunger for more than one meal. Rather, we are pioneering a tiny investment package that will enable farm families to grow their own way out of hunger, permanently.

We attack the number one health problem in Africa, which is lack of food. Hunger is the number one reason that one in six of our children dies before age five, and the number one reason that nearly half of the remaining children are physically stunted. We take a holistic approach to health, providing food security together with basic medicines.

We seize an opportunity to make a permanent difference. The amazing opportunity is that the majority of the world's hungry are farmers, whose sole profession is to grow food. One Acre Fund provides a small amount of seed and fertilizer on credit, weekly farm training in the farmers’ own fields, and market access. We empower farmers to grow four times more food within six months, and ten times more food value within three years. By linking our farmers with existing market-based solutions, our contributions stay with the family forever.

We work with the poorest of the poor, people that other organizations will not touch. We deliberately target those who have been left behind. And we are not content to simply touch their lives. We will make a total change in their living conditions - health, food, income - in a few short years.

Most notable milestones

—Increased harvests by 4.3 times in first harvest cycle.
—Grew to 125 farm families.
—Won the Stanford and Yale social business plan competitions and Echoing Green Foundation Grant.

What's the niche?

We consolidate many agricultural solutions together, making it possible for the very poorest households (who start with nothing) to realistically grow their income.

What's the biggest challenge?

Finding networks to scale through.

What's in store for the future?

Our target is to grow to totally change the lives of 150,000 children in the next five years.

Who would you like to be contacted by?

—Former management consultants and top-tier MBAs interested in long-term postings in Africa for very little money. We need people to grow.
—Anyone with links to food companies and exporters.
—Interested people can go to our website and find my email address.

What are your day-to-day responsibilities?

Model design and refinement, tool creation, recruiting, fundraising.

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