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26 Sep, 2008 2:43 pm
The Washington Post reports that The Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation has created the Purchase for Progress Program that will transform rural
agriculture in undernourished parts of Africa and Latin America by helping small farmers sell their surplus crops at...
19 Feb 10:16 am
Enough about the stumbling economy; here's a story to cheer your heart: From Seattle comes the news that the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation yesterday announced that it is investing US$48 million and private corporations are chipping in another US$42...
11 May 7:03 am
The Associated Press reported last week that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has selected 81 unconventional health research projects from
around the world for funding. The projects range from exploring using tomatoes to deliver antiviral drugs to researching whether...
15 Oct 6:38 am
... , Iowa where he will also announce a new $120 million "package of agriculture-related grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
to nine institutions around the world." Over the past three years the Bill & Melinda Gates ... . For his part, Gates is sensitive to those
criticisms, stating the new revolution '"must be guided by small-holder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and the environment."' Still,
Gates also receives criticisms from those who ...
16 Aug, 2007 9:22 am
... subsidized American farm products in African countries that in some cases, it says, compete with the crops of struggling local farmers. ... Under the system, the United
States government buys the goods from American agribusinesses, ships them overseas, mostly ... an effort by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, financed with an initial $150 million, to increase the productivity of Africa's farmers. ... The experiences of Walter
Otieno, a grizzled Kenyan farmer in ...
11 Nov 6:42 am
... agriculture expert. Currently the nominee works as the undersecretary of agriculture. Previously, Shah worked for the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation. The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is "the world's largest private charity [,]" and has given $1. ... Shah worked on the
food security initiative pushed by the Obama administration, "part of a global campaign to help small farmers get more food to the hungry." Department of State Secretary Hillary
Clinton is looking forward to working with Shah ...
18 Jul, 2007 7:55 pm
... 1950s, Borlaug developed high-yield wheat strains, then patiently taught the new science of Green Revolution agriculture to poor farmers of Mexico and nations to its south.
When famine struck India and Pakistan in the mid-1960s, Borlaug and a team of ... for average people. Last fall, Borlaug crowned his magnificent career by persuading the Ford,
Rockefeller and Bill & Melinda Gates foundations to begin a major push for high-yield farming in Africa, the one place the Green Revolution
has not ...
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