Dr. Rebecca Jerop revives ancient grains like finger millet to help farmers adapt to climate change and improve nutrition and ...

This article was originally published on Gates Notes. When I first began thinking about how to give away my wealth, I did what I always do when I start a new project: I read a lot of books. I read ...

Over the past 25 years we’ve witnessed and contributed to more progress than we ever thought possible. Now, the world is at a crossroads. The challenges ahead are the most daunting we’ve seen in our ...

On foundation’s 25th anniversary, Bill Gates outlines ambitious goals, inspiration for donating most of his resources and new timeline to spend-down by 2045 “There are too many urgent problems to ...

This article originally appeared on Economist.com. In recent years a quiet but disturbing trend emerged: as countries struggled to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and other shocks, official ...

Like many Ugandans, Dr. Clare Mukankusi grew up eating beans. They were served every day at school and grew in her family’s small garden in Entebbe. But while most Ugandans enjoy beans as a nutritious ...

We are data people, and this is a data report. Sort of. In 2015, leaders from 193 countries agreed to the Sustainable Development Goals—the SDGs. These were big, bold objectives we wanted to achieve ...

When historians write about the first quarter of the 21st century, I think they may sum it up this way: Twenty years of unprecedented progress followed by five years of stagnation. This is true for ...

When a mother dies during childbirth, the future dies with her. The world doesn’t just lose everything she is and will be. We also—all too often—lose her child. The chance of a baby reaching their ...

FAIRFAX, Va. -- The Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS) program announced its newest class of scholarship recipients. With these awards, 1,000 highly motivated low-income minority students from 48 states ...