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- News Source: United Press International | about 1 month agoMicrosoft founder Bill Gates said Thursday his foundation will give $120 million to help small farmers. Gates addressed the World Food Prize symposium in Des Moines, Iowa, the Quad City Times reported. He said he wanted to build on the work of Norman...
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- Blog Source: www.geekopedia.usBill Gates announced during an Oct. 15 keynote address at the. World Food Prize event in Des Moines, Iowa that an quot;ideological wedge quot; of environmentalism was hurting the fight against hunger in Africa. The World Food ...
- Blog Source: www.ictmag.infoBill Gates announced during a keynote address at Iowa's World Food Prize event that the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation would donate $120 million to funding bioengineered crop development and small-farmer policies in Africa.
- Blog Source: www.business24-7.aeThe grants, which will be made by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation working together with specialized agencies, will be announced by Gates in his keynote speech to the World Food Prize Symposium in Des Moines, Iowa later Thursday, ...
- Blog Source: zikkir.comThe foundation announced nine grants totaling nearly $120 million a few hours before Bill Gates was scheduled to give his first major speech on agriculture as the keynote speaker at the World Food Prize event in Des Moines, Iowa. In the past three
- Blog Source: agwired.comAt the World Food Prize Forum in Des Moines on Thursday, Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates spoke out in support of biotechnology to help feed the world. “We have to develop crops, including new inputs to go with them that ...
- Blog Source: www.radioiowa.comTechnology guru Bill Gates is defending the use of genetically engineered crops to help fight global poverty and hunger. The Microsoft chairman delivered the keynote speech at the World Food Prize Symposium in Des Moines this morning. ... “ If the
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