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  • Soybean Innovation Lab using $1.5M grant to improve Africa's crops

    Jan 5, 2026 3:15 pm
    People standing in a soybean field in Malawi, Africa

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    • People standing in a soybean field in Malawi, Africa

    A new $1.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will strengthen and expand the Soybean Innovation Lab's testing of new soybean seed products across sub-Saharan Africa.