Agriculture

We protect smallholder farmers’ livelihoods by supporting climate-resilient practices and securing fairer prices that increase yields and incomes.

East Africa
India
Latin America
Pakistan
West Africa

Our global impact in agriculture

lives impacted by our agriculture investees

deployed since 2004

agriculture companies supported

years of experience in the sector

Our futures are tied together.

Five hundred million smallholder farmers feed the world but earn less than 5% of the final sale price of the food they grow. Climate challenges bring further financial strain. We’re solving these urgent problems by putting smallholder farmers at the center.

Trellis

We invest in scalable agribusinesses that improve the lives of smallholder farmers through market access and climate adaptation support.

Farmer's hands hold ripe red peppers in a greenhouse enclosure

Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund

ARAF is the world’s first equity fund designed to build the climate resilience of smallholder farmers.

Women carries crops in a East African farm

At the intersection of poverty and climate, smallholder farmers are doubly vulnerable. Building resilience is the key, but it is not a straight line.

In fact, it’s a perfect circle: Climate resilience is necessary to secure their livelihoods, and economic resilience is indispensable to adapt to extreme weather events.

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