Scientific American reports on Bill Gate’s remarks at the World Food Prize and his call for a second Green Revolution. In his speech, Mr. Gates announced nine new agriculture grants totaling $120 million, and openly supported the use of biotechnology as one of many tools necessary to alleviate world hunger and advance the next Green Revolution.

Mr. Gates described the need to “develop crops that can grow in a drought; that can survive in a flood; that can resist pests and disease” and openly endorsed biotechnology as one solution to helping end world hunger.

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