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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The government promised nearly $800 million in aid Tuesday to ranchers and farmers stricken by a near-record drought.
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Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates has donated $400,000 to a campaign in California trying to win approval of a measure calling for the state to sell $3 billion in bonds to fund stem-cell research.
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India&#39;s prime minister Tuesday announced a six billion dollar package to try and help poor farmers hit by a combination of high debt and low crop yields, a government spokesman said.
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LOS ANGELES -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will give $1.9 million in hopes of improving student achievement in up to eight schools in the Los Angeles and Central Valley areas, it was announced Tuesday.
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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.
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Rich nations pledged $200 million to fight diseases in poor countries on Wednesday, promising to slash the time it takes to get new vaccines to needy children and save more than a million lives a year.
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Bill Gates, the world's richest man, is to donate nearly 20 million dollars for research into helping rice farmers deal with global warming, the International Rice Research Institute said Monday.
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By John Dobberstein, Tulsa World, Okla.  Sep. 6--Oklahoma will get about $6 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help cattle ranchers hurt by this year's drought.
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Economic woes took a back seat at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, today with meeting participants focusing on corporate responsibility and playing down the possibility of a recession. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates set the tone by announcing grants of $306 million to develop farming in poor countries -- a new direction for his charitable foundation.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's richest charity, joined with the Rockefeller Foundation yesterday to launch a new development initiative for sub-Saharan Africa that they said would revolutionize food production and reduce hunger and poverty for tens of millions of people.
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President Bush is making a renewed push to allow the government to spend food aid money to buy crops in poor countries
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Billionaire investor and Berkshire  Hathaway Chief Executive Warren Buffett is donating about &#36;30  billion in stock to a charitable foundation started by  Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, the firm said on Sunday.
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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 &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation announced Thursday that four grants totaling more than $68.2 million would go to fight three tropical diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people each year in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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By Natalie P. Mcneal, The Miami Herald  Dec. 17--The Helen B. Hoffman Plantation Library will get nine new computers this year, thanks to a $10,500 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has teamed up with the Rockefeller Foundation to invest some 150 million dollars in a development project tackling poverty and hunger in African communities.