In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.

Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

We view South Africa as one of our closest strategic partners in the developing world and in the African continent.

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

A decade ago, critics suggested biotech crops would not be valuable in the developing world. Now 90 percent of farmers who benefit are resource-poor farmers in developing countries. These helped alleviate 7.7 million subsistence farmers in China, India, South Africa, the Philippines from abject poverty.