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.

With our recent onboarding of 37.000 farmers in Zambia, we're now helping 108.000 farmers around the world to transition to agroforestry and combat climate change. Find out all about our team members' trip to Zambia and experiences here

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.

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.

Kyle Nielsen, Acorn's Innovation Consultant and native Zimbabwean, met a variety of smallholder farmers connected to our mission and activities. In a series of travel blogs, he shares their stories and his experiences. This time: the truth of ground truthing.

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.