Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Investor/Funder

Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationBMGF

www.gatesfoundation.org

Projects sponsored by BMGF

May 2018May 2020

Market Intervention for Nutritional Improvement (MINI) Project

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

The Genomic Reference Resource for African Cattle (GRRFAC)

Current Partners Country Organization Contact person email Senegal Ecole Inter Etats des Sciences et MÃ©decine VÃ©tÃ©rinaires de Dakar (EISMV) Ayao Missohou missohou@gmail.com Burkina Faso Institut de l’Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA), Ouagadougougou Amadou Traore traore_pa@yahoo...

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 2016Oct 2019

Global livestock advocacy for development - phase 1

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 2016Apr 2021

African Dairy Genetic Gains

The ADGG project is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and was initiated in 2016, with the pilot phase running from 2016 to November 2019, in Ethiopia and Tanzania. The project supports a farmer-focused partnership that routinely records on-farm performance, and genetic information on...