Agricultural nonprofit serving 5.5M smallholder farmers across Africa
One Acre Fund operates at scale across 10 African countries, serving 5.5 million smallholder farmers with advisory, input financing, and market access. The tech stack—Excel, Stata, R, Python, GIS, SAP, Odoo, CommCare—reflects a data-intensive, field-centric operation balancing statistical analysis with ground logistics. Active hiring across operations, finance, and data signals rapid scaling; the project portfolio (impact strategy, data strategy, European expansion, compliance controls) reveals internal focus on measurement infrastructure and organizational maturity alongside geographic expansion.
Notable leadership hires: Field Operations Lead, Chief of Staff
One Acre Fund is a nonprofit social enterprise equipping smallholder farmers in Africa with financing, inputs, training, and market linkages. The organization operates in 10 countries and reached 5.5 million farmers in 2024, with reported average farm income gains of 40% annually among participating farmers. The nonprofit model runs alongside commercial operations (input sales, buyback programs, market access), funded through grants, impact investment, and earned revenue. Operations span agronomic field services, supply chain and procurement, research, data analytics, and strategic partnerships.
One Acre Fund served 5.5 million smallholder farmers across 10 African countries in 2024, with average reported farm income increases of over 40% annually.
Primary tools include Excel, Stata, R, Python, GIS, SAP, Odoo, and CommCare—a mix of analytics, ERP, supply-chain, and field data collection platforms suited to agricultural logistics and impact measurement.
One Acre Fund is actively recruiting across 13 countries: Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Zambia, Malawi, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Switzerland, Canada, and Mexico. Current open roles span operations, finance, data, research, and field leadership.
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