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One Acre Fund

We serve one-acre farm families in East Africa

We invest in hard-working families

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 serve 180,000+ farm families in 12 more months

Our client

Where we work: East Africa

One Acre Fund works in East Africa, in the countries of Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi

Kenya

RwandaBurundi

Our Client

Most of the world’s poor are farmers.They have a remarkably uniform dilemma.

Feed a family of six with one acre of land,and a simple hand hoe

It is not working. Our families are not food secure.One in seven of our kids dies before age 5.

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They use outdated tools and techniques

Zero existing capital

Simple tools and education can double farm income

This is the goal of One Acre Fund

For most farmers, “agriculture finance” is a theoretical car that has no wheels

One Acre Fund’s model systematically attacks these barriers.

Finance

Physical access(delivery)

Affordability

Training Post-harvestprofit realization

(Also: climate risk, culture barriers)

How: our program model

Innovation 1: Complete “market in a box” for one-acre farmers

Producer Groups Productive asset loan (seed & fertilizer)

Training Post-harvest profit

Innovation 2: Distribution

Scalable impact

One field officer …

Producer Groups Seed and Fertilizer on Loan

Training Harvest Market Access

provides our service bundle … to 225 farm families

One Acre Fund Field Unit:

With 900+ children in those families

Lydia Musila, Kenyan Farmer

Getrude’s familyBEFORE BEFORE AFTER

Typical maize harvests

The tallest maize Getrude has ever seen

The best harvest of Getrude’s life

Practical, group-teaching methodology

Spacing seeds for the first time

Status Update

Scale: We are growing significantly faster than expected.

Scale:Families served

Originalprojected

Beginning of2011

Currentprojected

We consistently out-perform projections

This is because we constantly push ourselves to improve operations and get better at what we do

New possible growth path

Not just scale, but also impact and sustainability

Impact:2x profit per acre

Sustainability:Program revenues (USD)

Scale:Families served

Vision by 2020

Direct service

Build the largest network of smallholding farmers in Africa

We will directly serve 1.5 million families per year (6+ million children)

We will have 7,000+ field staff spread evenly over rural areas

We will be working in 5-8 countries

Partnership withgovernment

We will represent a significant constituency: for example, 15%+ of Rwanda’s entire population

We will use this as a platform to work together with African governments

Help build a broadermovement

There are more than 1,000 microfinance institutions that are currently sitting on the sidelines of the agriculture fight

That could be a very powerful distribution network

• One Acre Fund will be a leading pioneer in the drive to make the world’s agriculture technology accessible to Africa’s smallholding farmers

Thank You!