Google and the Gates Foundation to bring AI resources to 200 million farmers across the Global South.

Smallholder farmers produce nearly 35% of the world’s food across more than 500 million farms, yet they often lack access to the satellite data, financial services, and public support that can help them prepare and respond to increasingly unpredictable weather.

To help bridge this gap, we've partnered with the Gates Foundation to direct $100 million to organizations that scale AI-powered climate and crop insights to 200 million smallholder farmers across Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia — up from 50 million. This combined funding and dedicated technical support from Google researchers will help deploy real-time climate, agricultural, and language AI tools. Learn more.