A Golden Rice Opportunity

2 billion people in the world are still malnourished, and more than 800 million suffer from chronic hunger.

Economic research shows that providing adequate nutrition to pre-schoolers is the best way to spend a dollar to do good in the world.

If the world’s governments — including our own — focus on a dozen challenges, it will put the most money where it does the most good

CBC news, Thursday, August 14, 2008 If Bill Gates, say, offered you $10 billion to solve the big problems of the world, what would you spend it on? Counterterrorism? Global warming? World hunger? What about on the three great plagues of the modern era: HIV, malaria, TB? Where do you think you would get the most bang for your buck? These are exactly the questions a think-tank called the Copenhagen Consensus has been asking, on three occasions now, over the past four years, with the support of such influential publications as The Economist magazine and, this year, the Wall Street Journal.