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DES MOINES, Iowa, and NAIROBI, Kenya — The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) today launched an initiative to empower African governments to shape home-grown agricultural policies that…

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…

EAST LANSING, Mich. — The New Partnership for Africa’s Development and Michigan State University will use a five-year, $10.4 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to connect…

Washington, D.C. — The American Institutes for Research (AIR) has created Farmer Voice Radio, a network of radio broadcasters, agricultural experts, and farmers to provide millions of small farmers in Sub-Saharan…

LIMA, Peru — The International Potato Center has launched a major project to leverage the untapped potential of sweetpotato to significantly improve the nutrition, incomes, and food production of farming…

LONDON — A new project that aims to help local farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and to provide healthy school meals for local children launches today. The project, run by the…

WASHINGTON — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has contributed $10 million to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, expected to open in late 2015 on…

Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: +1.206.709.3400Email: [email protected] DES MOINES, Iowa — Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, today urged governments, donors, researchers, farmer groups, environmentalists, and others…

Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: +1.206.709.3400Email: [email protected] SEATTLE — The Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) is launching the Washington State Student Completion Initiative aimed at dramatically…

Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: +1.206.709.3400E-mail: [email protected] SEATTLE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced that Geeta Rao Gupta, president of the International Center for Research on Women…