Average rainfall 2001-2016, global tropics

Map: Average rainfall 2001-2016, global tropics

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Thomas Gumbricht bio photo By Thomas Gumbricht

Gates Foundation

Funding process

Reading about strategy development, it seems that the process for identifying projects is internal and when it comes to identifying organisations that can be involved the focus is on tax exempt US organisation.

Funding FAQ

Reading the Grantseeker FAQ, it seems near impossible to get funded unless you are on Gates foundation internal short list. And most of the organisations on that list are US non-profit NGOs.

Funded projects

Digital Green, including: FarmStack - Delivering location and time-specific advice to farmers to boost agricultural productivity and nutrition security. ($10,558,707).

The Digtial Green project is similar to the WEFARM project supported by norrsken.