Can the world’s richest man feed the planet?
Interesting article on Bill Gates:
“Three-quarters of the world’s poorest people get their food and income by farming small plots of land,” Gates said. “So if we can make smallholder farming more productive and more profitable, we can have a massive impact on hunger and nutrition and poverty.”
That’s exactly what the first Green Revolution accomplished in the Latin America and Asia. “But it didn’t go far enough,” Gates said. “It didn’t go to Africa.”
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I wonder how Gates would respond to the criticism that aid often does not alleviate problems in Africa.
Great book review of Dambisa Moyo’s book, “DEAD AID: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa” written about this on The Stanford Social Innovation Review website:
http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/review_dead_aid/