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The One Acre Fund model has won grants from the Echoing Green and Skoll Foundations, and received the Financial Times/IFC award for "basic needs financing" in 2010 and 2011. [ 15 ] In 2007, One Acre Fund received a $300,000 grant from the Draper Richards Foundation [ 16 ] and a $100,000 grant from Mulago Social Investments.
The 20th-century Monsanto Company, in the midst of a roughly five-year series of mergers and spin-offs (which had the effect of reducing its focus on chemicals in favor of biotechnology), legally ceased to exist in 2000. A new Monsanto Company was created and Grant became executive vice president and chief operating officer of this
The cash call is smaller than initially envisaged by Bayer because Monsanto reduced its debt while the antitrust review dragged on. Bayer (BAYGn.DE) launched a 6 billion euros ($7 billion/5.24 ...
Front entrance to Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. Founded in 1998 through the efforts of William Henry Danforth, chancellor emeritus of Washington University in St. Louis, the Center was established with a $60 million gift from the Danforth Foundation, a $50 million gift from the Monsanto Fund, the donation of 40 acres of land from Monsanto, and $25 million in tax credits from the State ...
Syngenta and DuPont create and are developing products to withstand extreme environments, but Monsanto's investment to provide farmers with tools that may reduce weather-related risks is a direct ...
Here's how much Monsanto has returned to shareholders in recent years: 2011* 2010. 2009. 2008. 2007. Dividends. $612 million. $589 million. $578 million. $491 million. $328 million. Share Repurchases.
Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303 (1980), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with whether genetically modified organisms can be patented. [8] The Court held that a living, man-made micro-organism is patentable subject matter as a "manufacture" or "composition of matter" within the meaning of the Patent Act of 1952.
ISAAA -- the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications, a pro-GMO nonprofit supported in part by Monsanto's funding -- says that GMOs have made 100-fold gains in terms ...