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===Agricultural development===
The BMGF's goal for agricultural development is "to support farmers and governments in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia that are seeking a sustainable, inclusive agricultural transformation—one that creates economic opportunity, respects limits on natural resources, and gives everyone equal access to affordable, nutritious food".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Agricultural Development |url=https://www.gatesfoundation.org/our-work/programs/global-growth-and-opportunity/agricultural-development |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |language=en}}</ref> The foundation's agricultural investments include: 
* [[International Rice Research Institute]]: Between November 2007 and October 2010, the Gates Foundation offered $19.9 million to the International Rice Research Institute. The goal of the aid was to support the increasing world demand for rice. The Gates Foundation claims: "To keep up with worldwide demand, the production of rice will have to increase by about 70 percent in the next two decades."<ref>{{cite web |title=Growing Better Rice for a Hungry World |url=http://www.good.is/posts/growing-better-rice-for-a-hungry-world |work=Good |publisher=GOOD Worldwide Inc |access-date=March 17, 2014 |date=May 23, 2011 |archive-date=March 17, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140317082509/http://www.good.is/posts/growing-better-rice-for-a-hungry-world |url-status=live }}</ref> The International Rice Research Institute has developed [[Golden Rice]], a genetically modified rice variant developed to combat [[Vitamin A deficiency]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Development/Agricultural-Development/Golden-Rice |title=Agricultural Development Golden Rice|access-date= February 3, 2016|url-status= dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203145910/http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Development/Agricultural-Development/Golden-Rice |archive-date=February 3, 2016 }}</ref>
* [[Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa]] (AGRA): The Gates Foundation has partnered with the [[Rockefeller Foundation]] to enhance agricultural science and small-farm productivity in [[Africa]], building on the [[Green Revolution]] that the Rockefeller Foundation spurred in the 1940s and 1960s.
* [[Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit]] (GTZ): In 2009, the Gate's Foundation donated $25 million to GTZ to help develop Africa's [[cashew]] industry through improving yield and investing in local processing capabilities. GTZ would partner with the [[African Cashew Alliance]], [[FairMatch Support]], and [[TechnoServe|Technoserve]] with the goal to increase the incomes of farmers in [[Benin]], [[Burkina Faso]], the [[Ivory Coast]], [[Ghana]], and [[Mozambique]] by 50% by 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Foundation, Partners Pledge $90 Million to Boost Incomes of Small Farmers in Africa |url=https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-center/press-releases/2009/02/foundation-partners-pledge-90-million-to-boost-incomes-of-small-farmers-in-africa |access-date=2023-11-29 |website=Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |language=en |archive-date=July 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726171426/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-center/press-releases/2009/02/foundation-partners-pledge-90-million-to-boost-incomes-of-small-farmers-in-africa |url-status=live }}</ref>