East Africa: Foundation Grant Helps Advance Fight Against Wheat Disease

A $27 million grant is boosting international efforts to address a major threat to agriculture in many countries.

Cornell University in New York is using the funds from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to coordinate a global response to a virulent wheat rust disease that has devastated crops in east Africa and is threatening other parts of the world. The rust also affects barley.

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