Bill Gates Gives $1.4 Billion to Help Farmers Adapt to Climate

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates is pouring money into helping small-scale farmers adapt to climate change and address a gap in funding for food production.

The Gates Foundation will commit $1.4 billion over four years to expand access to innovations that help farmers across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia become more resilient. That includes boosting crop yields and livestock production, and also providing digital advisory services and restoring degraded land, the foundation said in a statement on Friday ahead of COP30 climate talks in Brazil.

“Smallholder farmers are feeding their communities under the toughest conditions imaginable,” Gates, the foundation’s ...