Gates Foundation

Development finance has helped drive remarkable progress–halving child mortality, moving more than a billion people out of extreme poverty, and more. But with shrinking aid budgets and soaring debt burdens, those hard-won gains are now at risk. This is our chance to reset.

Advancing economic opportunities in agriculture is about more than simply investing in food systems—it’s about making strategic investments that give people/women across agricultural communities more control over land and property, technology, decision-making, and their own economic autonomy.

Over the past 25 years, innovation, resources and collaboration have been woven together to save millions of lives globally. Here’s how these interventions could affect one woman’s life, reminding us why it’s essential to build on this progress and keep moving forward.