Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Investor/Funder

Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationBMGF

www.gatesfoundation.org

Projects sponsored by BMGF

Aug 2022Jul 2025

Tropical Poultry Genetics Solutions (TPGS): Delivering farmer preferred, productive and ecologically adapted poultry to smallholders

This three year project will run as part of the One CGIAR initiatives and will focus on seven interrelated outcome areas, namely: Characterization of ecological adaptation of chicken ecotypes and identification of farmers trait preferences Strengthening of existing partnerships and developing new...

Aug 2022Aug 2025

EnviroCow: Reducing feed costs and GHG emission in smallholder dairy cattle in SSA

This three year partnership is between Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), U.K and ILRI. It will achieve its purpose of improving feed mitigation to climate change, increasing farmer productivity and income as well as access to nutritious food by enabling the selection of new generations of dairy...

Jan 2021Dec 2022

Global burden of animal diseases

Across the world, livestock production and aquaculture are critical to human nutrition and health. These animals play critical roles in society, providing income and food, but also clothing, building materials, fertilizer and draught power. However, the presence of endemic and emerging diseases, as...

Dec 2019Apr 2022

Gender planning

Much effort has been geared towards ‘gender mainstreaming’ to ensure that women’s needs, capabilities and constraints are included in the development of technologies, practices and business approaches. Such mainstreaming in livestock often aimed to highlight the underplayed, invisible and...

Nov 2019Apr 2022

Global livestock advocacy for development

The project builds on lessons and insights from the Global Livestock Advocacy for Development (GLAD) project (2016–2019) that addressed three key problems: a growing negative view of livestock in industrialized nations, low attention to the sector in wider agricultural and broader development...

Jan 2018Dec 2022

EQUIP–Strengthening Smallholder Livestock Systems for the Future Project

This project sets out to develop the knowledge, skills, tools and products that are prerequisites for future scaling efforts that will significantly reduce gaps in feed quantity and quality, and thereby increase livestock productivity in Ethiopia and Burkina Faso. The project has four focal areas...

livestock systems

May 2018May 2020

Market Intervention for Nutritional Improvement (MINI)

MINI is one of ILRI’s flagship projects in which the use of participatory system dynamics (SD) models has been applied in the context of analyzing agri-food and livestock value chains. This approach facilitates a mediated discussion with 10-15 value chain actors in a series of focus group meetings...

Nov 2017Oct 2020

Genomic reference resource for African cattle

It is intended that the resource be used by African and international research community in cattle genomics for the ultimate benefit of African livestock keepers, other livestock value chain actors and animal-source food consumers. This information is intended to be used for a variety of purposes...

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...