Community Health Worker Noria Issak speaks about contraceptive use to Fatuma Masan during a home visit in the Korogocho slum in Kenya.
May 14, 2012 by Gary Darmstadt
My hope is that this conversation that Melinda has started will get us closer to the moment where it is not controversial that all women and men around the world have equitable access to contraceptives.
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Nikuze Aziza carries a sack of food aid to her family's house from a warehouse in Rwanda.
May 03, 2012 by Laurie Goering
By 2050, the planet will need at least 70 percent more food than it does today, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization predicts.
Math teacher Doris Zuniz
May 11, 2012 by Chelsea Clinton
I hope someday to have students feel about me the way I feel about Mrs. Mitchell!
May 16, 2012 / Diane Scott
How do we ensure that we will be able to feed the world as our population tops 9 billion by 2050?
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May 01, 2012 / Laurie Lee
Why would an employee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation decide to live on £1 per day? Laurie Lee is participating in Live Below the Line and raising awareness of extreme global poverty.
April 04, 2012 / Haven Ley, Patrice Martin
This week we’ll be tuning into TEDxChange – The Big Picture, where speakers including Melinda Gates will be sharing positive messages about on-going challenges in social and economic development around the world.
March 20, 2012 / Laurie Lee
In May this year, I’m going to spend 5 days eating only what I can buy for £1(one pound)—the equivalent of the global extreme poverty line.
March 05, 2012 / Sir Gordon Conway
According to the FAO’s 2010-11 State of Food and Agriculture report, women make up, on average, 50 percent of the agricultural labour force in sub-Saharan Africa.