Gates Commends ICRISAT's Effort to Combat Hunger
June 5, 2013| |
Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), visited the headquarters of the International Crop Research institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Patancheru, Hyderabad on May 30, 2013. Gates was honored by ICRISAT as their first Ambassador of Goodwill, recognizing the consistent and generous support of BMGF to the institute.
Gates' visit highlighted the importance of the works and initiatives of ICRISAT and its partners, particularly in providing modern crop improvement technologies and best management practices on once ‘orphan' or neglected crops like grain legumes and dryland cereals. With food insecurity and malnutrition persisting as the greatest challenges facing humanity in the coming decades, Gates acknowledged the potential of ICRISAT's works on neglected crops to help millions of smallholders farmers in the drylands of Asia and sub-Saharan Africa lift themselves out of hunger, malnutrition, and poverty.
See ICRISAT's news release at http://www.icrisat.org/newsroom/news-releases/icrisat-pr-2013-media13.htm.
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