The biggest impact investor in the world, Bill Gates, believes one of the solutions to world hunger is through the genetic modification of foods. Genetic food modification includes altering the composition of seeds to make them more drought-tolerant, pest-resistant, and vitamin-enhanced. Gates has also made strategic investments in companies such as Monsanto that produce and facilitate these technologies.
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