Advancements in Climate-Resilient Agriculture

We really owe it, uh, to the poor farmers to

give them better tools. Uh, my awareness of climate change

really came when I was visiting Africa and seeing that as

the crops failed there more and more, uh, because of the temperature

increase, that was leading to malnutrition.

And of course, when malnutrition goes up, uh, that

increases deaths. It means that, uh, kids are not able

to develop either physically or mentally.

There's reasons to believe that by using the latest

techniques of being able to sequence genes, uh, using

AI, using satellite data, uh, that for all the

crops, not just the mainstream crops, we can make them far more

productive and far more, uh, climate resilient.

Uh, they'll be able to improve the lives of

over, uh, five hundred million

farmers. And so, you know, this is a very

fundamental top-of-the-list thing to address climate

adaptation.

Of course, we don't just want these improvements to

be in the lab.

We want them to scale up. Uh, we're impatient to see this done.

Uh, prioritizing the highest impact

interventions like we do in health will

be very important. Um, but I think we'll look back on today as a

real

milestone towards accelerating this adaptation innovation.