RIPE

The RIPE project was formed in 2012 and was funded by a five-year, $25-million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2017, the project received a $45-million, five-year reinvestment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, and U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. In 2018, the project received a $13 million supplemental investment to add resources and personnel to accelerate the translation of the project's successes into food crops. In 2023, the previous funding cycle ended, and RIPE moved forward with a $34-million, four-year investment from Bill & Melinda Gates Agricultural Innovations (Gates Ag One). The RIPE project and its sponsors collaborate on the mission to accelerate crop innovations that hold the potential to deliver the greatest possible impact for smallholder farmers... Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) is an international research project that is engineering crops to be more..