Verified · Jun 20251 min read
projectScaled · national · 2006

One Acre Fund Kenya (Tupande)

Bundled agricultural program that provides smallholder farmers with in-kind credit (seed and inputs), agronomic training from field officers, input delivery close to the farm, and market and post-harvest tools, with flexible repayment.

Scenic terraced rice fields in the Vietnamese countryside under a vibrant skyillustrative atlas image · Blog Cua Rot / Pexels

01 The context

It operates in western Kenya under the local brand Tupande. It jointly tackles credit, information and risk constraints.

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
EvidenceOne Acre Fund Case Study (Goldilocks Toolkit)Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) · 2016
EvidenceCan Smallholder Extension Transform African Agriculture? (NBER Working Paper 26054)National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) · 2019

04 Go to the source

Visit the official site oneacrefund.org