The world's poor can best be served by adopting the best of both worlds

25 Aug 2011
Every so often I go through old notes and emails – just to make sure I’m not missing something. My latest search turned up the text of a speech given by Bill Gates at the World Food Prize's Norman Borlaug Symposium in Des Moines, Iowa, in 2009. Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft Corp., and one of the world’s wealthiest individuals, spoke about the efforts of the Bill and Melinda Gates to help the world’s small farmers become more productive and thus increase the output from their small holdings. Since then, Gates and his wife have continued their “work,” as he called it, with the multi-billionaire recently purchasing a 5 percent ownership stake in Deere and Co. He and his Foundation have also poured millions more dollars into programs aimed at helping small farmers, particularly in Africa.

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