Grameen Foundation Expands Technology Program for Poor Farmers in Uganda | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

WASHINGTON -- As the international community prepares to celebrate World Food Day, Grameen Foundation today announced that it will expand its Community Knowledge Worker (CKW) initiative in Uganda, supported by a $4.7 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The initiative is building a self-sustaining, scalable network of rural information providers who use cell phones to help close critical information gaps facing poor, smallholder farmers. They will strengthen the information link to poor farmers by disseminating and collecting relevant information in these underserved communities.

To read the full press release, visit the Grameen Foundation web site.