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Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationSeattle: +1.206.709.3400London: +44.(0)207.798.6500New York: +1.212.584.5012Email: [email protected] DAVOS, Switzerland — Bill and Melinda Gates announced today that their foundation will commit $10 billion over the next 10…

ST. LOUIS — Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has received a five-year, $13 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve efforts to eliminate…

ROME — With ample land assets and productive potential, Africa has the opportunity to reverse the continent’s rising number of undernourished, which increased from 169 million in 1990 to 236…

Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: +1.206.709.3400Email: [email protected] SEATTLE — Bill Gates, Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, today released his second annual letter—a personal appraisal of the foundation’s…

MANHATTAN, Kan. – It’s not unusual for researchers to try to determine the best crops to plant in a particular climate, but a Kansas State University agricultural economist will go…

Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: +1.206.706.3400Email: [email protected] PORTLAND, Ore. — The Gateway to College National Network has received $13 million in grants from four leading foundations to expand a program…

WASHINGTON — A new $4 million Agribusiness Systems International (ASI) project aims to double the incomes of small‐scale fruit and vegetable farmers in Uttar Pradesh, India—including women—using tested techniques that…

KAMPALA, Uganda — The Coca-Cola Company, nonprofit TechnoServe, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today launched a partnership to enable over 50,000 small fruit farmers in Uganda and Kenya…

GLASGOW, Scotland — The University of Glasgow has received a $3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to further the treatment of sleeping sickness, otherwise known as…

Grameen Foundation today announced a new initiative designed to expand safe access to formal savings accounts for poor people, especially those living on less than $1.25 per day.  The Microsavings…