Bill Gates: Human males are too irresponsible and selfish to be trusted with anything.

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Subject: Bill Gates: Human males are too irresponsible and selfish to
be trusted with anything.
Date: Jan 25, 2008 6:20 AM

"Rather than see the benefits of projects captured by better-off
farmers, as
in some past projects, the nonprofit groups receiving Gates foundation
grants will
focus on poor women because studies have found that they are more
likely to use
gains in income to educate their children and improve their families'
well-being."

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January 25, 2008
Gates Foundation to Give $306 Million to Assist Poor Farmers
By CELIA W. DUGGER

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has spent billions of
dollars to improve
the health of poor people in developing countries, will reach into its
deep pockets
on Friday for a newer philanthropic mission: to increase the
productivity of impoverished
farmers.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Mr. Gates, the
chairman of Microsoft,
intends to announce $306 million in grants that aim to provide the
rural poor with
better seeds, healthier soil and access to new markets for their
crops, the foundation
said Thursday. Three-quarters of the world's poorest people live in
the countryside.
The grants to be announced Friday by the foundation will bring its
total for agriculture
to $660 million, and it says it will increase the total to $900
million by next
year.

This infusion of money and interest from one of the world's most
influential philanthropic
families is helping to revitalize a field that has been starved of
resources in
the past two decades as foreign aid for agricultural development has
plummeted.
Several factors led to the fall, including competition for aid for
health and education,
as well as earlier failures in agricultural development.

The Gates grants come as global warming is likely to intensify
droughts and floods
in Africa and worsen the staggering rates of rural poverty on what
already is the
hungriest continent.

"People, ourselves included, recognize this is an urgent problem and
is only going
to get worse," said Rajiv J. Shah, the foundation's director of
agricultural development.
"We need to come together now."

The foundation's approach seeks to avoid problems that have led to
disappointing
results for other aid-financed agricultural projects.

Instead of relying on professionals from wealthy countries who
eventually leave
and take their skills with them, it seeks to educate, train and employ
people from
poor countries to conduct the scientific research and advise farmers
about crop
techniques and livestock care, among other tasks.

Rather than see the benefits of projects captured by better-off
farmers, as in some
past projects, the nonprofit groups receiving Gates foundation grants
will focus
on poor women because studies have found that they are more likely to
use gains
in income to educate their children and improve their families' well-
being.

Instead of counting on free markets to generate opportunities
spontaneously, the
nonprofit groups managing some of the grants will intervene to help
farmers form
groups to sell goods in bulk and provide them with access to the
agronomic advice,
processing facilities and transportation they need to take advantage
of growing
markets for products like milk and coffee.

In Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda, for example, Heifer International --
working with other
groups and institutions -- will help women who tend cows gain access to
refrigeration
plants, enabling them to sell milk for distribution to stores distant
from their
farms.

The foundation's largest grant -- $165 million -- will go to the
Alliance for a Green
Revolution in Africa to improve the degraded soils of four million
farmers in a
dozen African countries.


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