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Contact: Dana Topousis
dtopousi@nsf.gov
703-292-7750
National Science Foundation

NSF and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to address worldwide agricultural challenges

The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will discuss a nearly $50 million partnership to support innovative solutions to critical agricultural challenges in developing countries.

The new award program, called BREAD--Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development--will support a competitive award program for scientific research projects that address serious constraints to smallholder agriculture in the developing world.

Who: James Collins, NSF assistant director for biological sciences
Rob Horsch, deputy director of the agricultural development initiative at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Jane Silverthorne, NSF deputy division director for biological infrastructure
Deborah Delmer, NSF program director for BREAD

What: Media teleconference to discuss the new BREAD program

When: Monday, March 30, 2009, 11:30 a.m. ET

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To participate in the teleconference, reporters in the United States should call 1 (866) 617-1526, passcode BREAD (27323).


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