Comprehensive Last-mile Ecosystems

 

The Need

  • Rural Africa and Asia are home to 75% of the lowest income populations - the vast majority of whom are subsistence farmers, largely overlooked by development efforts and global supply chains

  • Basic resources, skills and knowledge remain inaccessible to most, while best efforts hit an impact ceiling

Differentiation

  • The LINK Fund is a practitioner-led organization that builds the social economy through a rich ecosystem of actors and best-in-class business model solutions to meet the world’s largest untapped market.

The Solution

  • We address the multiple barriers to success these populations face – access to credit, last-mile delivery of a life-improving technology, training in its proper use, and market facilitation - achieving a surplus of what was previously scarce.
 
 

Case Study: One Acre Fund

 
 
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Approach

  • Makes smallholder farming more productive by addressing multiple needs simultaneously

  • Develops “last-mile business model” ecosystems

  • Rapidly scales best-in-class solutions

Results

  • More than 12 million people out of extreme poverty

  • Measurable and substantial increases in harvest levels

  • Leading to 50%+ gains in bottom-line profit on supported activities

Impact Outcome

  • An rapidly spreading end to chronic hunger.

  • Increased spending on education, farm investment, and home improvement

These solutions address the true bottom of the pyramid – a vast population that for decades had been served in a piecemeal manner at best, and most often simply ignored.