One Acre Fund (Tupande) in Kenya

Description

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. 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).

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