CHAPTER 12
Harvest of Hope
Bill Gates rocks forward and back in his chair and taps his foot against the floor, trying to address a challenging question. He's talking to a small group of journalists about how to keep people focused on the long-term growth of farming in Africa, a topic that usually hasn't been high on many people's minds elsewhere in the world.
“Agriculture, it's about the long term,” he says.1 Rock, tap. “Many of these new seed varieties we work on, it's a decade before you're out to hundreds of thousands or millions of farmers.” The efforts of Gates and governments have an advantage they didn't have in 2006, when the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation started investing in agricultural development. The commodities casino that jolted ...
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