The GreenSTOCKd Blog

Bill Gates is going out with a bang. He’s stepping down from Microsoft and donating $306 million (a mere drop in the bucket of his billions, but a respectable chunk nevertheless) to a foundation for African farmers that he and his wife have started. This foundation is geared toward teaching new agricultural methods which will enable people to work their way out of poverty. Some of its goals are to help with farming education and training, to provide crops such as rice that can thrive in Africa’s often-harsh environment,  and to strengthen connections to both local and global markets.“Of the billion people who live on less than $1 a day, three-quarters are small farmers,” he said in explanation of the agricultural focus. Think about this one: Mr. Gates is worth roughly $60 billion. If he were to distribute that to every one of the earth’s inhabitants, that’d be $10 a person, which would be ten times as much as 1/6 of the world lives on a day. And about what I have allotted to myself for a weekly budget.