The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent nearly $6 billion on agricultural development programs with a key focus on expanding industrial agriculture in Africa. Leading experts in food security, Africa’s leading civil society network, and hundreds of groups around the world say the foundation’s “green revolution” agricultural program for Africa is exacerbating hunger, … [Read more...] about Critiques of Gates Foundation agricultural interventions in Africa
Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
200 Organizations Ask Gates Foundation to Stop Funding ‘Failed’ Green Revolution
Billions of dollars in aid and subsidies for industrial agriculture in Africa are harming food security in one of the world’s hungriest regions, according to a network of African groups asking donors to switch their funding to African-led efforts and agroecology. In a letter delivered Tuesday, 200 organizations led by the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa asked the … [Read more...] about 200 Organizations Ask Gates Foundation to Stop Funding ‘Failed’ Green Revolution
Farmer Bill and the Great Reset
STORY AT-A-GLANCE Bill Gates has been buying up farmland across the U.S. He currently owns 242,000 acres of farmland, plus another 27,000 acres of nonagricultural land His sizable land ownership further strengthens Gates’ already enormous influence over agriculture and food policy In 2006, Gates launched AGRA together with the Rockefeller Foundation. After 14 … [Read more...] about Farmer Bill and the Great Reset
Monsanto’s “Unlikely” New Business Partner — A Name You Know Well…
Many have long suspected that U.S. policy on genetically modified (GM) organisms was being influenced by the multinational corporations that profit from genetic engineering and the export-oriented agribusiness. However, recently released Wikileaks cables document just how close that relationship has become. The U.S. Department of State has virtually become an agency for … [Read more...] about Monsanto’s “Unlikely” New Business Partner — A Name You Know Well…
