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WASHINGTON — A significant grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will allow TechnoServe to help small-scale coffee farmers in East Africa double their incomes. The $46.9 million, four-year grant…

LOS BANOS, Philippines — The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is receiving significant new funding to harness major scientific advances and address some of the biggest unsolved problems in agriculture.…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Heifer International today announced a four-year $42.8 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund a project to help poor rural farmers in…

LAKEWOOD, Colo. — International Development Enterprises (IDE) today announced a grant of $27 million over four years from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in support of its micro-irrigation programs…

Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: 206.709.3400Email: [email protected] SEATTLE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today that Dr. Rajeev Venkayya has joined the Global Health Program as director of…

WASHINGTON — A landmark series of research papers on maternal and child undernutrition published in the leading international medical journal The Lancet today shows that children will suffer irreversible damage…

WASHINGTON — GAIN will use the grant to work with private companies and public-private partnerships to introduce nutritious foods for infants and young children between 6 and 24 months of…

SEATTLE and WASHINGTON, D.C. — With global health leaders increasingly concerned about the near-term possibility of an influenza pandemic, PATH today announced a new program to support rapid development of vaccines…

LÉVIS, Quebec — Over the next three years, Développement international Desjardins (DID), a component of the Desjardins Group, will carry out a major project aimed at increasing interconnectivity among nearly…

ATLANTA — CARE today announced a grant of $5.2 million over four years from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for strengthening the dairy value chain in Bangladesh to increase…