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Gates Foundation To Announce Grants To Promote Agriculture At World Food Prize Symposium
During a "keynote speech" Thursday at the World Food Prize Symposium in Des Moines, Iowa, Bill Gates, cofounder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is expected to announce $120 million in grants "to promote dynamic, home-grown, sustainable agriculture in Africa and India," Agence France-Presse reports. In a statement, Gates said that "helping the poorest smallholder farmers grow more and get it to market is the world's single most powerful lever for reducing hunger and poverty" (Zeitvogel, 10/15).
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