One Acre Fund has been announced as the 2023 recipient of the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize.
The prize will provide One Acre Fund with $2.5 million in unrestricted funding to scale its work supporting smallholder farmers in Africa with financing, agricultural inputs such as seed and fertilizer, and training to increase yields and profits.
Smallholder farmers produce around a third of the world's food and therefore play a vital role in addressing the global food crisis, but they are also especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change. “No farmer should be hungry. Farmers should be ending hunger,” Peter Laugharn, president and CEO of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, told Devex.
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Naomi Mihara
Naomi Mihara is an Associate Editor for Devex, working on creative and audiovisual projects. She has a background in journalism and international development, having previously served as an assistant correspondent for Japanese newspaper The Yomiuri Shimbun and as a communications officer for the International Organization for Migration in Southeast Asia. She holds a master’s degree in Multimedia Journalism from Bournemouth University.
