Thank you very much.
Thanks to both of you for being here.
I'll try to split my time between both of you. I hope we can get in a couple of questions.
Dr. Fraser, first to you, I have a document in front of me put out by Oxfam called Growing a Better Future, which you may be familiar with. They talk about access to technology. I'll read a paragraph and I'd like to get your comments on it. They talk about the major companies, in this case, Dupont, Monsanto, Syngenta, and Limagrain. It says:
The research agenda of these companies focuses on technologies geared toward their biggest customers, large industrial farms which can afford the expensive input bundles the companies sell. Such technologies rarely meet the needs of farmers in developing countries, who in any case cannot afford them. Small-scale farmers' technology needs are ignored, despite the fact that they represent the biggest opportunity to increase production and combat hunger. The market is failing, and--with a couple of notable exceptions such as China and Brazil--governments are failing to correct it.
We're talking about science innovation and the fact that we're getting technology to produce more food, and yet we're seeing that maybe it's not getting to the farmers who may need it the most in developing countries.
I'd like you to comment on that.