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Co-founded the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa with $150 million alongside the Rockefeller Foundation
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation jointly launched AGRA — the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa — with an initial combined grant of $150 million, with Gates contributing the majority. Chaired by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, AGRA targeted the agricultural productivity of smallholder farmers across 20 African countries, aiming to double yields and incomes for 30 million farming households by 2020. The investment was explicitly framed as addressing the structural poverty and food insecurity that drives internal displacement and international migration from sub-Saharan Africa.
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