The only EA aligned charity I can find doing anyrhing in Africa with maize is the food fortification initiative, although they don’t really fit Anthony’s description, so he may be referring to a different EA aligned charity
That would make sense, they’re on The Live You Can Save’s list of charities. I note on the article for One Acre Fund that “In 2018, 78% of One Acre’s higher-skilled Africa-based roles were filled by African nationals — including the CEO. By the end of 2020, One Acre Fund will recruit, manage, and deliver professional development services to over 10,000 African national employees.” That doesn’t necessarily make it grassroots and local on the same level of granularity or comprehensiveness of UCF, but it’s also a much bigger organization serving a much wider area.
One Acre Fund also works with a huge variety of crops in different countries. They don’t seem to bring some Western doctrinaire attachment to maize. I wouldn’t be surprised if they could do better with another crop but that seems like a technical question more than anything.
The only EA aligned charity I can find doing anyrhing in Africa with maize is the food fortification initiative, although they don’t really fit Anthony’s description, so he may be referring to a different EA aligned charity
Not sure, but I would bet Anthony is referring to One Acre Fund.
That would make sense, they’re on The Live You Can Save’s list of charities. I note on the article for One Acre Fund that “In 2018, 78% of One Acre’s higher-skilled Africa-based roles were filled by African nationals — including the CEO. By the end of 2020, One Acre Fund will recruit, manage, and deliver professional development services to over 10,000 African national employees.” That doesn’t necessarily make it grassroots and local on the same level of granularity or comprehensiveness of UCF, but it’s also a much bigger organization serving a much wider area.
One Acre Fund also works with a huge variety of crops in different countries. They don’t seem to bring some Western doctrinaire attachment to maize. I wouldn’t be surprised if they could do better with another crop but that seems like a technical question more than anything.