Farmer Stories

As our partnership manager for Asia, Marta Radinovic Lukic visited India — meeting with our local partners and smallholder farmers we’re supporting in the region. In this blog, she relays her experiences.

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.

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

Latin America and its rich agricultural climate (and many smallholder farmers) is a region Acorn has focused on since the beginning. In this travelogue, our account manager Paola López details her latest experiences.

Kyrgyzstan, like many nations relying on agriculture, has been impacted by climate change in various ways. Together with AFoCO, Acorn is determined to turn the tide for this beautiful country. Read on.

Last month, Acorn’s Margreet Muizebelt happened to be in Mbale to meet with our partner Solidaridad. Perfect timing, as Solidaridad ECA (East and Central Africa) was organizing a celebratory payment ceremony in the Mount Elgon region between Kenya and Uganda.

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.

Asómbrate: a Spanish word that means "be amazed" and "shade [something]", and the name of the new agroforestry platform developed by Solidaridad. What better way to celebrate than with a catchy agroforestry tune?

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