Bill Gates says rising hunger, poverty are 'pretty bleak' but says world can get back on track with investments to increase food production, including in what he calls 'magic seeds.'
include ending poverty and hunger, battling climate change, providing access to clean water, working toward gender equality and reducing economic inequality.
As he has for more than 15 years, Gates called for investment in agricultural research, highlighting corn seeds that thrive at higher temperatures and in drier conditions than other varieties. Those seeds were developed under a program of the African Agricultural Technology Foundation to which the foundation has given $131 million since 2008.
“If you want your inputs like fertilizer to come in, if you want your output to go out, it’s just too expensive in Africa without that infrastructure,” he said, adding that building and maintaining roads is highly expensive. “Fertilizer is necessary. You simply cannot meet the overall productivity gains without it,” Suzman said, speaking on a call with reporters.
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