Gates Foundation to Give $306 Million to Assist Poor Farmers
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The grants aim to provide the rural poor with better seeds, healthier soil and access to new markets for their crops.
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Warren Buffett, the world&#039;s  second-richest person, is donating about &#36;37 billion -- more  than 80 percent of his fortune -- to foundations run by his  friend Bill Gates and by the Buffett family.
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The Scottish Executive pledges a further Â£9m to help some of the world's poorest people, it is announced.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Thursday announced a new $328 million plan to provide computer and Internet services through public libraries in developing nations.
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The search to find an effective drug to fight malaria received a huge financial boost today with a donation of $42.6 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced it was giving 17.5 million dollars in grants to improve Internet access in public libraries in Botswana, Latvia and Lithuania.
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The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation is giving $105 million to the University of Washington to open a new research center to assess the performance of global health programs.
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By The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Mar. 4--The Bush administration is proposing an $87.8 billion farm bill that would cut overall agricultural spending, boost funding of conservation programs and reduce the number of wealthy farmers eligible for taxpayer subsidies.
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The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday it's awarding $287 million in grants over five years to create an international network of scientists to speed up the development of an AIDS vaccine.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of Seattle has donated $43 million dollars grant dollars to Institute for OneWorld Health, a nonprofit drug company, to aid in the development of cheaper malaria treatment.
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Officials on Monday disbursed $1.8 million in federal money for North Dakota ranchers who lost forage to drought.  The money was provided to the state through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Livestock Assistance Grant Program.
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The United Nations' world food body  outlined steps on Monday meant to help the world's poorest  nations combat soaring food prices, including a new voucher  program for farmers and a review of food-guzzling biofuels.
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The U.S. government has shortchanged minority farmers, providing them with a fraction of the aid given to their white counterparts, Oxfam said in a report on Thursday, as the aid and advocacy group pushed Congress to craft legislation reversing decades of exclusion.
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Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates contributed $400,000 to the campaign backing a California ballot measure that would make billions of dollars available for human embryonic
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will team with the Rockefeller Foundation to increase agricultural productivity in Africa.
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The economy is poised to grow by 6.4 per cent during the current year and 6.7 per cent in 2005, but a poor monsoon is raising concerns over agricultural growth, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said here today.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of Seattle has given a $43 million dollars grant to aid in the development of a genetically engineered form of a Chinese herbal drug that is thought to be effective in curing malaria.