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2009-10-19 | permalink
Can the world’s richest man feed the planet?
Echoing luminaries before him—from Norman Borlaug to Kofi Annan—the world’s richest man Bill Gates called last night for a second Green Revolution focused on African farmers. [...] ”The charge is clear—we have to develop crops that can grow in a drought; that can survive in a flood; that can resist pests and disease,” Gates added. ”We need higher yields on the same land in harsher weather.” The answer, at least in part? Sustainability paired with genetic modification.
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2009-10-19 | permalink
Can the world’s richest man feed the planet?
Echoing luminaries before him—from Norman Borlaug to Kofi Annan—the world’s richest man Bill Gates called last night for a second Green Revolution focused on African farmers. [...] ”The charge is clear—we have to develop crops that can grow in a drought; that can survive in a flood; that can resist pests and disease,” Gates added. ”We need higher yields on the same land in harsher weather.” The answer, at least in part? Sustainability paired with genetic modification.
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