Africa

After extensive planting in Kenya, it was finally time for harvesting. In other words: celebrating the first payout for smallholder farmers, facilitated by our local partners Trees for Kenya and Farm Africa. Our account manager Margreet and trainee Anne witnessed this wonderful moment of celebration in the town of Embu.

In Kagera, an administrative region in north-west Tanzania, our local partner Kaderes is making sure farmers get paid fairly for their Acorn efforts — not just when it comes to how much, but also when it comes to how.

Etse Lossou, our GIS (Geographic Information Systems) analyst and native Ghanaian, visited his home country in January to train data collectors. In this blog, he shares his experiences.

Kyle Nielsen, our innovation consultant, has written several blogs about his experiences with smallholder farmers and data collection. This time, he looks forward to what the future might hold for remote sensing technologies.

Kyle Nielsen, our innovation consultant, shares how important Acorn’s local partners are — on an operational scale, and a more personal one.

From September 26th–28th, Acorn attended the West Africa Carbon Market Hub in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire — signing an MoU with the West African Alliance.

From grant announcements to connecting with local partners and women farmers, Acorn had a rewarding week at Africa Climate Week.

In July, an Acorn farmer payout ceremony in Tanzania issued payments to about 500 farmers, presented by the Hon. Dr. Selemani Saidi Jafo, Tanzania’s Minister of State.

What challenges do enumerators face when collecting ground truth in difficult terrain? Kyle shares the realities of ground truthing in Kenya, as he accompanied Francis Warui, project manager for the Akvo Foundation.