Harvest Biotech Foundation International Grant

Organization - Harvest Biotech Foundation International
Grant Amount - $599,780
Foundation - Rockefeller Foundation
Grant Purpose - toward the costs of improving access of poor farmers in Kenya to lower-cost, disease- and insect-free tissue culture banana plantlets, thereby raising their farm productivity, food security and incomes


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Kenyatta University - $98,810 from the Rockefeller Foundation - toward the costs of a project to use low-cost tissue culture techniques to boost preservation and production of virus-free cassava and bananas in Kenya, with a goal of lowering costs to small-scale farmers

International Center for Tropical Agriculture - $103,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation - for use by its Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute for research on the use of mycorrhizal fungi to improve banana tissue culture and as a component of integrated soil fertility management for banana production in Kenya and Uganda

Makerere University - $95,818 from the Rockefeller Foundation - toward the cost of planning a project to increase the food security and incomes of poor farmers in Uganda through development and marketing of nutrient-enhanced banana-based foods for local, regional and international markets

Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange - $554,850 from the Rockefeller Foundation - in support of a project to develop information and commodity exchange systems aimed at raising the incomes of poor farmers in western Kenya by linking them more efficiently to input and output markets

Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange - $399,400 from the Rockefeller Foundation - in support of a project for market information and commodity exchange systems aimed at raising the incomes of poor farmers in Kenya by linking them more efficiently to input and output markets

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