Business Fund Puts African Farmers on Road to Market (April 3, 2012)
Synopsis
In Kenya, Rwanda and Burundi, a new approach to small-scale farming has spread to more than 100,000 families in just four years. Part of the Food for 9 Billion series, Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on an organization called One Acre Fund that brings struggling farmers together, offering them training, resources and market access.
Source: PBS NewsHour
Length: 10:03
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The humanitarian organization One Acre Fund was created to give all global citizens at least one acre to live on.
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One Acre Fund is failing because very few farmers are repaying loans that they received.
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One Acre Fund assists independent farmers by providing them the same goods and services that are commonly made available to the large-scale farmers, such as
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One Acre Fund staff members are designing a pilot project that would provide loans to farmers, which would enable the farmers to store some the grain they produce each season. Increasing the availability of grain storage is being promoted because it would benefit farmers by
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The video begins by explaining that there is an irony or paradox related to life for much of the farming population in rural Africa. What is that paradox? Why does this paradox persist? Detail several methods that the nonprofit organization One Acre Fund started utilizing to combat this problem.
Newer technologies, like widespread cellphone and Internet availability, have recently allowed farmers better access to information, thereby empowering them. Specifically, how has better increased availability to information empowered famers?
One Acre Fund is a non-profit organization, relying on grants to support its operations, and is currently only able to assist a small fraction of all needy farmers in Africa. In what ways would governmental involvement be critical for ensuring the continued successes that One Acre Fund have generated?
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