News Source: Palm Beach Post
| about 1 month ago
Iowa — The world can make huge strides in reducing hunger and poverty by helping the world's poorest farmers become more productive, Microsoft Inc. co-founder Bill Gates said Thursday. Gates, co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| about 1 month ago
The grants, announced on the eve of World Food Day, are from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the philanthropic organisation co-chaired by Gates and his wife. "Three-quarters of the world's poorest people get their food and income by farming...
News Source: Associated Press
| about 1 month ago
Bill Gates says the world can make huge strides in reducing hunger and poverty by helping small-holder farmers in Africa become more productive. The founder of Microsoft Inc. and co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation spoke at the World...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 month ago
Michigan State University says a five-year, $10.4 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will help it train African biosafety regulators. The grant is part of the foundation's new $120 million initiative aimed at using technology to...
News Source: India Abroad
| about 1 month ago
The Gates Foundation also announced on Wednesday grants to nine foundations totalling $120 million illustrating the range of efforts necessary to empower millions of small farmers to grow enough to build better, healthier lives. Gates will also pay...
News Source: Des Moines Register
| about 1 month ago
Transforming how people use computers may have been the easy part...Over the past three years, his foundation has committed $1.4 billion toward agricultural development, funding projects ranging from breeding higher-yielding plants to helping African...