Alumni Spotlight Series: Andrew Youn '06 + One Acre Fund

For more information, visit: kell.gg/YounImpact
Co-founded by Andrew Youn ’06, One Acre Fund (OAF) supplies smallholder farmers with the financing and training as a means to grow their way out of hunger and poverty. Instead of giving handouts, OAF provides farmers with financing for farm inputs, improved seeds and fertilizer, agricultural training, and market facilitation to maximize harvest prices. Most importantly, OAF delivers these services within walking distance of the 400,000 farmers served by the organization.
The program has proven impactful. On average, farmers increased their income by 50 percent within the first year of working with OAF. In 2015, nearly all farmers working with OAF repaid their loans in full and on time.

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  • @kellerichard6283
    @kellerichard62835 жыл бұрын

    Happy to work in this lovely Organization. I work with OAF in Tanzania

  • @diannebrown2470
    @diannebrown24706 жыл бұрын

    What kind of fertilizer are they using? Where is the fertilizer coming from and who is sponsoring the fertilizer?????

  • @margaretallen1
    @margaretallen18 жыл бұрын

    That's wonderful. Peace through elimination of hunger and poverty! Excellent use of your planting string and single seeds. But I am concerned about the use of chemical fertilizer. What do you use? Are you also teaching people to grow sustainably and organically through the use of compost crops, double digging, mulching, hexagonal planting, etc?

  • @ylparker5832
    @ylparker58327 жыл бұрын

    I notice they are using loans. I hope they are not sticking these people with too many loans.

  • @tinawong7825

    @tinawong7825

    3 жыл бұрын

    they said 99% are repaid plus they have insurance

  • @tinawong7825
    @tinawong78253 жыл бұрын

    African are way more multi lingual then Americans (U.S.); even some of the farmers speak some English. What is the matter with our educational system?

  • @stevegatoho4643
    @stevegatoho46433 жыл бұрын

    This season oaf has failed beans nowhere to be seen whywhy????

  • @MamboSoftware
    @MamboSoftware5 жыл бұрын

    Just spotted this from Kenya... cnyakundi.com/one-acre-fund-in-the-name-of-africas-poorest-for-the-glory-of-the-white-man/ and this from Uganda... cnyakundi.com/one-acre-fund-ugandan-narrates-how-racist-organization-operates-in-his-country/

  • @kanyangenathalie2447
    @kanyangenathalie24477 жыл бұрын

    Mwampaye amakuru ya Interview. Selection January

  • @KenDanieli2
    @KenDanieli28 жыл бұрын

    slow