# One Acre Fund

> Agroforestry at scale: equips African smallholders to plant over 100 million trees a year

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## Facts

- Type: Nonprofit
- Scope: Regional
- Headquarters: Kakamega, Kakamega County, Kenya
- Founded: 2006
- Website: https://oneacrefund.org
- Donate: https://oneacrefund.org/donate
- Countries where they plant: Burundi, Congo - Kinshasa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia
- Activity types: Agroforestry (primary), Nurseries & seedlings, Carbon offset planting
- Trees on record: 250,000,000 (larger of latest cumulative figure and sum of annual figures; trees planted or distributed)

## 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.

## Programs

- **Tree program** — Agroforestry (2019–present): 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. https://oneacrefund.org/what-we-do/areas-focus/trees/tree-program-impact-country
- **Agroforestry carbon pilots** — Carbon offset planting: 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. https://oneacrefund.org/what-we-do/areas-focus/trees/tree-program-impact-country

## Metrics

> Note: One Acre Fund counts tree seedlings that farmers received and planted, not surviving trees; its 2025 report says it 'conservatively expects about half of these trees to survive to maturity'. The cumulative total of 250 million is counted from 2019 only, while the older impact page still says '100 million trees to date'. Adding the 134 million planted in 2025 to the 250 million reached by end-2024 gives roughly 384 million since 2019, a figure the organization has not itself published.

| Metric | Year | Value | Cumulative | Program | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---:|---|---|---|---|
| Trees planted | 2024 | 90,000,000 | no (that year) | organization-wide | Self-reported | [source](https://oneacrefund.org/sites/default/files/2025-05/2024_AnnualReport.pdf) 2024 Annual Report, p.3 '2024 Highlights': 'We equipped farmers to plant more than 90 million trees in 2024' |
| Trees planted | 2025 | 134,000,000 | no (that year) | organization-wide | Self-reported | [source](https://oneacrefund.org/sites/default/files/2026-05/2025_Annual_Report.pdf) 2025 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 planted | 2024 | 250,000,000 | yes (to date) | organization-wide | Self-reported | [source](https://oneacrefund.org/sites/default/files/2025-05/2024_AnnualReport.pdf) 2024 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 | no (that year) | Tree program | Self-reported | [source](https://oneacrefund.org/what-we-do/areas-focus/trees/tree-program-impact-country) '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) |

Confidence: self-reported is the organization's own published figure; independently verified means a third party confirmed it; estimated means TreeRM derived it and the note says how.

## Links

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- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/one-acre-fund

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