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- Funding Source
- Bill and Melinda Gates Fndn.
- Start date
- 2020
- End date
- 2026
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Displaying projects 1 - 25 of 96
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to expand an integrated model for empowering women and improving nutrition through the poultry value chain in Burkina Faso -
to develop economically sustainable seed systems for cassava farmers in Africa to improve their reliable access to high quality planting materials of improved cassava cultivars to enhance and protect their harvests - Funding Source
- Bill and Melinda Gates Fndn.
- Start date
- 2020
- End date
- 2025
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to enhance government decision-making and improve public support to agricultural transformation and livelihoods - Funding Source
- Bill and Melinda Gates Fndn.
- Start date
- 2020
- End date
- 2022
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to build an international agronomy research alliance towards improving the productivity and profitability of crops, increasing climate resilience, and rehabilitating soil health for sustainable intensification in the Global South - Funding Source
- Bill and Melinda Gates Fndn.
- Start date
- 2020
- End date
- 2022
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to provide smallholder dairy farmers access to highly-productive and well-adapted cows and buffaloes to increase their income - Funding Source
- Bill and Melinda Gates Fndn.
- Start date
- 2020
- End date
- 2023
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to build a more effective plant breeding system that develops superior cultivars for critical African crops (cassava, yam, banana, cowpea, maize and soybean) through a partnership with a leading private-sector seed company. - Funding Source
- Bill and Melinda Gates Fndn.
- Start date
- 2020
- End date
- 2022
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to strengthen the African Biosafety Network of Expertise to help African countries develop functional systems to regulate the testing and use of safe and productivity-enhancing agricultural biotechnologies - Funding Source
- Bill and Melinda Gates Fndn.
- Start date
- 2020
- End date
- 2025
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to accelerate the development and delivery of more productive, climate-resilient, market-demanded, and nutritious maize and wheat varieties in support of sustainable agricultural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia - Funding Source
- Bill and Melinda Gates Fndn.
- Start date
- 2020
- End date
- 2025
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to implement, evaluate and refine the Breeding Program Assessment Tool mechanism that provides standardized expert evaluations of key breeding programs that develop improved varieties of crops for smallholder farmers in Africa and S. Asia - Funding Source
- Bill and Melinda Gates Fndn.
- Start date
- 2020
- End date
- 2024
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to support development of a partnership with the International Fund for Agricultural Development to advance mutual programmatic interests in agricultural development. - Funding Source
- Bill and Melinda Gates Fndn.
- Start date
- 2020
- End date
- 2025
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to fund applied research and the development of a household sanitation system addressing the sanitation needs of disadvantaged populations. - Funding Source
- Bill and Melinda Gates Fndn.
- Start date
- 2020
- End date
- 2022
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to modernize and accelerate breeding of African yams for increasing stable yield, pest and disease resistance, and preferred food quality. - Funding Source
- Bill and Melinda Gates Fndn.
- Start date
- 2020
- End date
- 2022
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to conduct impact and process evaluations of the three poultry companies under the APMI grant to understand the program's impact on productivity, income, diet quality, and women's empowerment. - Funding Source
- Bill and Melinda Gates Fndn.
- Start date
- 2020
- End date
- 2022
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to create self-reproducing hybrids of sorghum and cowpea, thereby increasing their yield and allowing developing world farmers to save seed. - Funding Source
- Bill and Melinda Gates Fndn.
- Start date
- 2020
- End date
- 2025
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to enable building platforms to collect and analyze animal health market data in Ethiopia and Kenya leading to better informed and more impactful investment decisions and getting closer to inclusive livestock transformation - Funding Source
- Bill and Melinda Gates Fndn.
- Start date
- 2020
- End date
- 2021
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to maintain and build support for US global agricultural development programs and agricultural R&D investments through educational events with key policymakers - Funding Source
- Bill and Melinda Gates Fndn.
- Start date
- 2020
- End date
- 2021
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to support the installation and governance of a new agriculture coordination hub located in the Office of the Nigerian Vice President, to guide and support the implementation of two pilot programs - Funding Source
- Bill and Melinda Gates Fndn.
- Start date
- 2019
- End date
- 2022
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to build and populate data dashboards that support decision-making by government and other stakeholders that benefit African smallholder farmers by promoting periodic replacement of better crop varieties and improving seed system efficiency - Funding Source
- Bill and Melinda Gates Fndn.
- Start date
- 2019
- End date
- 2022
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to integrate public rice breeding efforts in Africa into a modern, effective variety development system that develops higher-yielding, market-preferred, stress-tolerant varieties, and enables their delivery to African small-scale producers - Funding Source
- Bill and Melinda Gates Fndn.
- Start date
- 2019
- End date
- 2021
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To generate analysis and policy recommendations that support continued US leadership for agricultural development - Funding Source
- Bill and Melinda Gates Fndn.
- Start date
- 2019
- End date
- 2021
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to contribute to the increase in Ethiopian smallholder farmer income by creating a public-led digital platform to support agricultural advisory services, which will enable government, private and civil society actors across value chains to - Funding Source
- Bill and Melinda Gates Fndn.
- Start date
- 2019
- End date
- 2024
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promote the development, dissemination, and uptake of new staple crop varieties containing enhanced levels of iron, pro-vitamin A, and zinc as a complementary strategy to address micro-nutrient malnutrition in Africa and South Asia. - Funding Source
- Bill and Melinda Gates Fndn.
- Start date
- 2019
- End date
- 2023
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to develop improved methods for monitoring acaricidal resistance and confirm if an ectoparasiticide is suitable for the African livestock market - Funding Source
- Bill and Melinda Gates Fndn.
- Start date
- 2019
- End date
- 2021
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to validate activity and initiate early product development of beneficial microbes for deployment to smallholder and pre-commercial farmers in sub-Saharan African nations to control sweet potato weevils, a major pest of sweet potatoes - Funding Source
- Bill and Melinda Gates Fndn.
- Start date
- 2019
- End date
- 2022
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to generate strategic, spatially-explicit information on the nature and scale of climate-induced risks and smallholder vulnerabilities in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and to map the potential efficacy of prioritized adaptation options - Funding Source
- Bill and Melinda Gates Fndn.
- Start date
- 2019
- End date
- 2020