It’s importing because it has to,” Mr Gates said. Each African nation is different, but none is likely buying grain from Eastern Europe because it wants to. “When a region can’t grow enough to feed its people, there’s only one solution – to import food – which Africa does on the order of US $23 billion a year. So called “magic seeds” – which allow crop yields to climb even in the face of soaring temperatures – would dramatically improve food security, wrote Bill Gates. One of the next major game changers could be rollout of genetically superior seeds for vital crops such as rice and maze. “We believe it’s possible that one day we will look back at the data in this report the same way we look at the Aids data from the turn of the millennium: in disbelief at how quickly and dramatically things turned around,” the Foundation said. Without the medication, the world would be suffering close to five million Aids-related deaths per year, instead of the 650,000 recorded in 2021. The arrival of antiretrovirals 20 years ago led to a near 60 per cent decline in annual deaths from HIV/Aids between 20. The report cites the example of antiretroviral therapy for the HIV/Aids epidemic as the type of innovation that is now needed to tackle areas as diverse as hunger and equal rights for women and girls. Today, at the halfway point, it is unlikely the world will meet even a handful of the targets set. “We’d need to speed up the pace of our progress five times faster to meet most of our goals,” the report, titled ‘The Future of Progress’ said. It said that without new innovation, some goals, such as gender equality, would not be hit until 2108 – three generations later than expected. In a report published on Tuesday, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said that all the 17 development goals set by world leaders in 2015 would be missed unless cutting-edge solutions emerged. The world will miss nearly all of the UN development goals by 2030 without inventions as radical as the creation of HIV antiretrovirals, one of the world’s biggest philanthropic organisations has warned.
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