Bill Gates: Aid Can Spur 'Historic Progress'

In his fourth annual letter about the work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates covers a range of topics related to improving lives by reducing poverty, with a particular emphasis on the benefits of investing in agriculture.

Farmers teaching farmers. Mwanaidi Ramadhani (left) is part of a local farmers’ organization in Mwasonge. Farmers like Mwanaidi have coached more than 1,800 farmers in Tanzania to grow this kind of sweet potato.

Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation holds up samples of meningitis vaccine at a press conference.

Resilient seeds, ready for purchase at the Dryland Seed Company, Machakos, Kenya, are boosting local yields as much as five fold.

Photo Essay

Video

  • 7 January 2011
    Ghana: Cassava Futures
    Publisher:
    IFAD
    Publication Date:

    Once known as 'poor man's food', cassava -- a starchy tuber -- may now be among the best hopes for reducing poverty in the West African country of ... see more »

Follow AllAfrica

AllAfrica publishes around 500 reports a day from more than 100 news organizations and over 500 other institutions and individuals, representing a diversity of positions on every topic. We publish news and views ranging from vigorous opponents of governments to government publications and spokespersons. Publishers named above each report are responsible for their own content, which AllAfrica does not have the legal right to edit or correct.

Articles and commentaries that identify allAfrica.com as the publisher are produced or commissioned by AllAfrica. To address comments or complaints, please Contact us.