Lecture: Improving the Lives of Smallholder Farmers in Africa and South Asia

Date/Time:	Monday, 22 Feb 2010 at 8:00 pm
Location:	Sun Room, Memorial Union
Cost:	Free
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Phone:	515-294-9934
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"Feeding Africa and South Asia: The Role of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation," David Bergvinson, senior program officer in Agricultural Development at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Bergvinson currently manages seven crop improvement grants within the science and technology division of the foundation.

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Gates Foundation-funded projects include:
- Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (CIMMYT, $39.1M over 5 years)
- Tropical Legumes 1 -developing molecular makers (Generation Challenge Program, $9.6M over 3 years)
- Tropical Legumes 2 -developing and delivering varieties for six legumes in Africa and South Asia (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, $20.6M over 3 years)
- Stress Tolerant Rice for Africa and South Asia (International Rice Research Institute, $19.9M over 3 years)
- "Green Super Rice" for the Resource-Poor of Africa and Asia (CAAS, $18.2M over 3 years)
- Cereal System initiative for South Asia (IRRI, $19.6M over 3 years)
- One Apollo Project: Creating the second Green Revolution by supercharging photosynthesis: C4-rice (IRRI, $11M over 3 years)
- Agricultural Information System: Weather Surfaces (Tulane Univ./ AWhere, $472, 823 over 18 months)
- A Molecular Breeding Platform (Generation Challenge Program/CIMMYT), $11,994,250 over 5 years)