Bill and Melinda Gates Agricultural Innovations

Bill and Melinda Gates Agricultural Innovations

Agriculture has the potential to sustain us all, but fulfilling that potential is dependent on equitable access to the tools and products needed to increase productivity and support food security as climate change, population growth, and gender inequality pose growing threats.

Bill & Melinda Gates Agricultural Innovations (Gates Ag One) is a new nonprofit dedicated to ensuring high-quality, pioneering crop innovations are available and accessible to those who need them most, to make good on the conviction that all lives have equal value. Smallholder farmers around the world have an urgent need for innovations to sustainably improve crop productivity and spur long-term economic growth. Too often, those discoveries never reach small-scale farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, whose lives and livelihoods depend on a productive, secure food supply.

Gates Ag One is uniquely focused on serving the interests of smallholders by ensuring groundbreaking agriculture products, like climate-resilient, yield-enhancing seeds and traits, reach markets that have traditionally missed out. We are redrawing the map between scientific research and market access – connecting ideas and action with an unwavering focus on sensible product development to maximize impact.

By building an inclusive and world-leading community of partners from both high- and low-income countries – including R&D partners, academics, private sector companies, non-profits, and governments – we can optimally evaluate, de-risk, and advance the best breakthrough crop science into revolutionary products for smallholder farmers.