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● projectScaled · national · 2006
One Acre Fund (Tupande) in Kenya
Social enterprise founded by Andrew Youn (with John Gachunga) in 2006 in Bungoma, Kenya, that offers smallholder farmers an integrated bundle: asset-based financing (inputs on credit), seed and fertilizer delivery, training and market linkages, with repayment tied to the harvest cycle.
illustrative atlas image · Anna Shvets / Pexels01 The context
It started with 38 families in 2006; today, under the Tupande brand, it reaches more than one million farmers in Kenya and ~5.9 million households in 10 countries (2025).
02 How it works
03 What it stands on
Evidence level
Own experience
Grounded in published theory
Documented evidence elsewhere
Independently evaluated here
Peer-reviewed research documents this project: the strongest evidence level in the atlas.
The evidence 2 ›
EvidenceSocial Entrepreneurship Strategies and Resilience of One-Acre Fund Household Livelihoods in KenyaAmerican Journal of Economics and Business Innovation · 2023
EvidenceRigorous evaluations (portafolio de RCTs y evaluaciones de impacto de One Acre Fund)One Acre Fund · 2022