{"id":89859,"date":"2025-11-11T18:05:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/gates-foundation-commits-to-smallholder-farmers-support"},"modified":"2025-11-11T18:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:33:18","slug":"gates-foundation-commits-to-smallholder-farmers-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gates-foundation-commits-to-smallholder-farmers-support","title":{"rendered":"Gates Foundation Commits to Smallholder Farmers&#8217; Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>The Gates Foundation has announced a new commitment to advancing climate adaptation, helping smallholder farmers build resilience to a warming world and protect hard-won gains against poverty.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Announced at COP30 in Bele\u0301m, Brazil, where leaders are emphasising locally driven adaptation, the four-year, $1.4 billion investment will expand access to innovations that help farmers across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia adapt to extreme weather.<\/p>\n<p>In these regions, where food security and livelihoods depend on agriculture, smallholder farmers and the communities they feed are among the most exposed to droughts, floods, and rising temperatures. Yet less than 1% of global climate finance targets the growing threats to these vital food systems, a press release by the Foundation said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmallholder farmers are feeding their communities under the toughest conditions imaginable,\u201d said Bill Gates, chair of the Gates Foundation. \u201cWe\u2019re supporting their ingenuity with the tools and resources to help them thrive\u2014because investing in their resilience is one of the smartest, most impactful things we can do for people and the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The press release said the commitment supports Bill Gates\u2019 vision, outlined in his recent COP30 memo, of prioritising climate investments for maximum human impact and advances the foundation\u2019s goal of lifting milions of people out of poverty by 2045.<\/p>\n<p><b>Addressing a global funding gap<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The press release said farmers in low-income countries produce one-third of the world\u2019s food but face mounting climate threats. \u201cWithout greater adaptation investment, these shocks will continue to drive food insecurity and reverse hard-won gains against poverty,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>World Bank research shows that targeted adaptation investments could boost GDP, particularly in small island developing states, by up to 15 percentage points by 2050. The World Resources Institute estimates that every dollar invested in climate adaptation will yield more than $10 in social and economic benefits within a decade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClimate adaptation is not just a development issue\u2014it\u2019s an economic and moral imperative,\u201d said Mark Suzman, CEO of the Gates Foundation. \u201cThis new commitment builds on our support for farmers in Africa and South Asia who are already innovating to withstand extreme weather. But they can\u2019t do it alone\u2014governments and the private sector must work together to prioritise adaptation alongside mitigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Gambia<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. 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