15/10/2009 Bill Gates is expected to announce on Thursday a donation of 120 million dollars to Africa and India. The funds will be allocated to development projects in food security.
The Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates will announce Thursday a donation of $ 120 million for the development of food security in Africa and India, according to a development organization beneficiary.
Bill Gates must be the announcement of this initiative in person on Thursday at a symposium for the World Food Prize in Des Moines (Iowa, center).
Several agricultural development projects, amounting to $ 120 million funded by the Gates Foundation, aimed at addressing the problem of food security in the long term, according development organization Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), one of the recipient organizations.
15 million to AGRA
AGRA announced a scholarship of $ 15 million to support agricultural policy in five African countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Mozambique and Tanzania .
According to the UN, one billion people hungry worldwide. Foundation, Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, has a budget of $ 3.8 billion for 2009 alone.
"Unlike Farmers around the world, African farmers, most of whom are women, receive literally no support from their governments ", said Kofi Annan, Chairman of AGRA and former Secretary General of the United Nations.
very diverse projects
Other projects funded by the Gates Foundation, according to information from the Deputy Director of Development Foundation, Roy Steiner for Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Uganda and India.
They cover areas as diverse as research in vegetable crops (19 million), promotion of sweet potatoes, cereals diversification, development of a radio network for farmers and encouraging links between schools and markets. In India, the Gates Foundation will fund a water management project for the female population.
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