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Video: A simple way to help the world’s farmers

Tony Kalm
Inaugural Leader, One Acre Fund
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”Three quarters of the world’s poorest are farmers who are using tools and techniques that date back to the Bronze age,” says Tony Kalm. One Acre Fund supplies farmers with simple tools, seeds, financing and training that, Kalm says, can double a farm’s income within six months.

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Author: Tony Kalm is the Inaugural Leader, One Acre Fund

Image: A farmer waters her vegetable fields. REUTERS/William Hong

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