One Acre Fund
Kakamega, Kakamega County, Kenya 路 Nonprofit 路 Regional 路 since 2006
Agroforestry at scale: equips African smallholders to plant over 100 million trees a year
About
One Acre Fund is a nonprofit social enterprise founded in 2006 that supplies smallholder farmers in ten African countries with seed, fertilizer, training and tree seedlings on credit, and reaches millions more through government and partner programs. Its tree program distributes seedlings from thousands of community nurseries for farmers to plant on their own land, mixing timber, fruit, nut and fodder species. The organization reported 134 million trees planted by farmers in 2025 and 90 million in 2024, and aims for 1 billion cumulative trees by 2030.
What they run
Distributes tree seedlings raised in networks of community nurseries to smallholder farmers, who plant them on farm boundaries and fields; runs in all One Acre Fund countries and drives its 1-billion-trees-by-2030 goal.
Early-stage agroforestry carbon projects in Tanzania, Zambia (where farmers receive tree-survival payments) and Malawi's Munda Otsogola pilot, with a cumulative 15,000 farmers enrolled.
Trees by type of work
| Activity | Trees | Years |
|---|---|---|
| 馃尵 Agroforestry | 25,600,000 | 2024 |
Only figures attached to a named program count here. Organization-wide totals sit in the table below.
The numbers
| Metric | Year | Value | Program | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trees planted | 2024 | 90,000,000 | Organization-wide | Self-reported | source2024 Annual Report, p.3 '2024 Highlights': 'We equipped farmers to plant more than 90 million trees in 2024' |
| Trees planted | 2025 | 134,000,000 | Organization-wide | Self-reported | source2025 Annual Report, p.3 '2025 Highlights': 'In 2025, One Acre Fund equipped farmers to plant 134 million trees spanning 58 species, including 16 fruit/nut varieties' |
| Trees plantedto date | 2024 | 250,000,000 | Organization-wide | Self-reported | source2024 Annual Report, p.3: 'reached a milestone 250 millionth tree planted since 2019, concluding Phase 1 of our effort to plant 1 billion trees by 2030'; cumulative count starts in 2019 |
| Trees planted | 2024 | 25,600,000 | Tree program | Self-reported | source'Tree program impact by country' page, Rwanda 2024: 25.6M trees with 1,012,782 farmers through 2,000+ nurseries (Kenya 55M, Malawi 16.5M, Burundi 7M, Nigeria 6.5M, Tanzania 4.3M listed alongside) |
How they report
What earned it
- 10/20 Publishes annual tree figures: 2 years of annual figures on record (5 points each, up to 4 years)
- 15/15 Figures are recent: Latest annual figure is for 2025
- 10/10 Every figure has a public source: 4 of 4 figures link to a source
- 0/15 Publishes financials or cost per tree: No financial figure recorded
- 0/15 Reports survival or monitoring: No survival or monitoring figure
- 0/10 Independently verified figure: All figures are the organization's own
- 10/10 Breaks figures down by program: Figures attached to named programs
- 0/5 Reports volunteers or events: No volunteer figures or events
- Latest annual figure
- 134,000,000 trees in 2025 (+49% on the year before)
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