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The MIX and One Acre Fund transfer the Smallholder Finance Product Explorer to the Mastercard Foundation RAF Learning Lab's Data Portal

News: The Mastercard Foundation Rural and Agricultural Finance Learning Lab is thrilled to take ownership of the Smallholder Finance Product Explorer, a project funded by the Mastercard Foundation & the Open Society Foundations, and implemented by One Acre Fund and MIX from 2016-2019. Integrating this dataset with the Lab’s current data platform will ensure users have easy access to a one-stop-shop for critical smallholder finance data.

Engaging conversations from State of Smallholder Finance

News: A diverse crowd of industry stakeholders gathered at the May 5 State of Smallholder Finance event to discuss findings from the landmark report, Inflection Point.

Putting farmers first: One Acre Fund's 2015 annual report

Report: The One Acre Fund 2015 Annual Report provides an overview of the organization's progress, forward-looking strategies, and new initiatives. Beginning with an opening letter from the Executive and Managing Directors, the report walks through One Acre's scaling progress and strategy, their impact for 2015, new country expansion opportunities, and stories from the farmers themselves.

Flexible repayment at One Acre Fund

Community: A One Acre Fund white paper explains how flexible repayment plans present a sustainable lending model for smallholder farmers.

Governments can do more to unlock innovation and support market growth in the agricultural sector

Community: One Acre Fund makes the case for the government playing a central role in spurring innovation and growth in agriculture.

One Acre Fund

Learning Lab Partner

https://www.oneacrefund.org/

The OneAcre Fund seeks to expand access to financial services and training for smallholder farmers in Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi, ultimately enabling 181,000 additional poor farm households to improve their farming techniques, and increase their profits on every planted acre.

One Acre fund will also encourage microfinance institutions to expand into rural areas, helping pioneer and augment the capacity of a new sector of microfinance. And the partnership strengthens OneAcre's core MIS and M&E systems, enabling continued improvement to its program design and greater cost efficiency in its operations, as well as increasing bandwidth to capture the most accurate and compelling evidence of impact.

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Press release: One Acre Fund and The MasterCard Foundation Partnership