Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Investor/Funder

Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationBMGF

www.gatesfoundation.org

Projects sponsored by BMGF

Nov 2018Oct 2022

Urban food markets in Africa: Incentivizing food safety using a pull-push approach

The project aims to improve food safety in urban informal markets in Burkina Faso and Ethiopia. While previous efforts have focused on training producers or regulators with little attention to incentives for behaviour change, the project investigates if consumer demand can provide the same...

Jan 2017Dec 2021

ReSAKSS Phase III

The Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) is an Africa-wide network of regional nodes established in 2006 under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). It supports implementation of CAADP efforts to promote evidence and outcome-based policy...

Jan 2013

Mzima livestock project

Trypanosomiasis is one of the most significant constraints to cattle production in Africa, directly affecting livestock productivity (meat and milk production) and indirectly lowering general farm productivity as cattle can play a crucial role as beasts of burden. A study mapping the benefits of...

Agriculture to nutrition Ethiopia project

Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Agriculture to Nutrition (ATONU) project seeks to help the African continent broaden its agricultural focus from ‘eating for hunger’ to ‘eating for health’. It focuses on how agriculture can deliver positive nutrition outcomes for smallholder...

Oct 2016Sep 2021

MoreMilk: Making the most of milk

The MoreMilk project aims to generate research evidence on how informal milk markets can be leveraged to improve nutrition and health, especially in peri-urban settings. The overall objective of the project is to improve child health and nutrition outcomes through milk consumption. The project will...

Aug 2016Aug 2018

Global livestock advocacy for development

The project aims to marshal and communicate evidence that can be used to advocate for increased funding for livestock for development priorities. Through the project, evidence and creative content will be assembled and creatively presented, intentional convening and engagement in targeted high-...

Dairy genomics program of the Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health

The program facilitates the application of genomics to dairy production in the tropics for: increased livestock productivity, enhanced livelihoods of the rural poor, increased food and nutritional security, and a more sustainable environment. This will be achieved by: Identifying key applications...

dairying

Jan 2015Dec 2016

Tanzania Livestock Master Plan (LMP)

The project is expected to run for 14 months and provide training and technical backstopping to livestock experts and planning staff of the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Department;  resulting in a realistic, fact-based medium term Livestock Master Plan (LMP) that will guide policy...

livestock

Nov 2014Oct 2019

African Chicken Genetic Gains (ACGG)

African Chicken Genetic Gains is an Africa-wide collaboration led by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). In November 2014, ILRI and partners initiated this new collaboration to provide better chickens to smallholder farmers in Africa. Part of the wider ‘LiveGene‘ initiative, ACGG...

Nov 2015Oct 2020

African Dairy Genetic Gains

The ADGG program will support a farmer-focused partnership that records and disseminates on-farm productivity and genetic information on dairy cattle in Tanzania and Ethiopia. The data generated will be used by farmers to manage their herds and improve cow management, leading to sustained animal...

Completed

Jan 2014Dec 2018

N2Africa Phase II (Ethiopia)

The main objective of N2Africa project is to increase biological nitrogen fixation and productivity of grain legumes among African smallholder farmers, contributing to enhanced soil fertility, improved household nutrition and increased cash income. The legacy will be strong national expertise in...

Jan 2014Dec 2016

Improved vaccines for the control of East Coast fever in cattle in Africa

Due to high mortality and morbidity rates livestock diseases are an impediment to the livelihoods of poor farmers in Africa, who struggle to attain food and nutritional and economic security. Vaccines can alleviate such constraints as they are among the most successful disease interventions...