Microsoft's Bill Gates speaks during a dinner with President Donald Trump in the State Dinning Room of the White House on Sept. 4, 2025, in Washington. Photo by AP Photo/Alex Brandon

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 US$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 communitie

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