Gates gives $120 million to help poor nations farm

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Thu Oct-15-09 01:36 PM
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Gates gives $120 million to help poor nations farm

Thu, Oct 15 10:30 AM

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said it will donate a total of $120 million in nine grants aimed at boosting agricultural production, marketing and farming expertise in the developing world.

"Melinda and I believe that helping the poorest small-holder farmers grow more crops and get them to market is the world's single most powerful lever for reducing hunger and poverty," Gates, the billionaire founder of software giant Microsoft, said in remarks prepared for delivery on Thursday to the World Food Prize annual meeting.

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Oregone

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Thu Oct-15-09 01:42 PM
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1. Cool!

Thats the same as me giving $500 dollars to Africa, proportionally, except...

I need most of my money to live. He collects interest and dividends off his.

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Sebass1271

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Thu Oct-15-09 04:48 PM
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2. I wish he could also help some of our students here in the US.

especially the ones who can't afford college..

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