practiceScaled

One Acre Fund Kenya (Tupande)

📍 Kenia · 2006 · One Acre Fund

Scale
local
subnational
national
systemic

Description

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

Linked evidence

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