The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Thursday 48 million dollars in grants for public-private projects designed to boost the incomes of poor small cocoa and cashew farmers in Africa.

The US foundation, created by the wealthy founder of software giant Microsoft, Bill Gates, and his wife, said it had joined two partnerships marshalling 90 millon dollars to help the small farmers lift themselves out of poverty and reduce hunger.

The projects focus on improved training and access to markets for hundreds of thousands of small cocoa and cashew farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, the Gates Foundation said in a statement.

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