As food price rises threaten global food security once more, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced it will donate $70 million to a new collaboration that will focus on agricultural research projects helping smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia.
The new project will help farmers overcome threats to food production such as crop diseases,
Several donors have teamed up for an innovative research initiative that aims to improve food security in developing countries.
The U.K. Department for International Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Indian Department of Biotechnology have contributed US$32 million toward the Sustainable Crop Production Research for International Development Initiative. The project aims
A new website, Trade Mark Southern Africa, has just been launched, helping to improve the region’s trade performance and competitiveness.
The UK’s Department for International Development (DfID) has recently launched its new report, entitled “Eliminating World Poverty: Building our Common Future.”
Two implicit dimensions are rreflected in this report’s title. Firstly, the world already has many good solutions for reducing world hunger, but they simply need to be scaled up and funded in order to work
