1. One Acre Fund

2. Presentation Overview
 Introduction
 Our package
 Our Operations in Tanzania
 A farmer story
 Our vision for the future

3. Countries of Operation
 One Acre Fund is based in rural East Africa
Kenya
Rwanda
Burundi
Tanzania

4. The purpose of One Acre Fund
 We serve small-scale farmers and put them
first in everything we do.
 We measure success in our ability to make
more farmers more prosperous.
75% of the
world’s poor
are farmers
Their
profession is to
grow food
They use
outdated tools
and techniques
Zero existing
capital
GOAL of One
Acre Fund?
Simple tools
and education
can double
farm income

5. The Model of One Acre Fund
We serve one acre farm families with farm inputs on
credit
 We don’t give hand-outs, we invest in hard-working
families so they can help themselves
 Non-profit revenue model: farmers pay for services
 Proven impact: double farm profit per acre
 7 years old – starting initial scale up
 This year we will serve 150,000 farm families

6. BEFORE
BEFORE
AFTER
The impact:
2x farm income on every planted acre

7. Innovation #1: We have a unique service bundle
which meets the needs of the one acre farmer
Producer Groups
Seed and Fertilizer on Loan
Training
Harvest Market Facilitation

8. Innovation #2:
We bring our service bundle to their doorstep

9. Services delivered through a
“cookie cutter” unit
One Acre Fund Field Unit:
One field officer …
… provides our service bundle …
Producer Groups
Seed and Fertilizer on Loan
Training
… to 150 farmers
Harvest Market Facilitation
One Acre Fund now has 1000 of these field
units, serving 150,000 farm families

10. Current status: Three Metrics
Scale:
Impact:
Sustainability:
Families served
2x net rev per acre
Repayment 98%
200,000
$300
$20
$250
150,000
$15
$200
100,000
$150
$10
$100
50,000
$5
$50
0
$2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
$Control
Test
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

11. Our operations in Tanzania

12. Our work in Tanzania
 Reasons for expanding program to Tanzania:
 Very hard-working maize farmers with substantial
amounts of land
 Favorable climate and conditions
 High potential for program expansion and growth
 Operations began in Iringa in May 2012

13. Our work by season
First Season
Second Season
(2012-2013)
(2013-2014)
1,148 Farmers
3,000+ Farmers
9 wards
22 villages
2 wards
7 villages

14. A One Acre Fund farm family

15. Valence Ndola is a hardworking farmer.
He had a fantastic harvest last year,
getting 25 bags of maize per acre.

16. With his profits he has invested in swine farming.
Next year he hopes to acquire a dairy cow.

17. Our vision for the future

18. Vision 2020
Direct service
Partner with
governments
 Build the largest
 We will represent a
network of smallholding significant constituency
farmers in Africa
For example, 20% of
Rwanda’s entire
 Directly serve 1.5+
million families per year population
 We will use this as a
platform to work
 7,000 field staff spread
together with African
evenly over rural areas
governments
 In 8 countries
(5+ million children)
Food security
 Our farmers will be
feeding their own
families (5+ million
children)
 Our families’ surplus
will also fill the grain
deficit of an additional
25 million individuals
• Most of the world’s poor are farmers. We know
how to double their productivity. Our job now is
to share this as fast as humanly possible!

19. Conclusion
 This is an enormous humanitarian opportunity
 We must build for scale
 Build a leadership team that lives in the field
 Standardize our model, and replicate
systematically
 We will serve 1.5 million farm families by 2020

20. Thank You!
Please ask difficult
questions …