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Critiques of Gates Foundation agricultural interventions in Africa

October 13, 2021 by U.S. Right to Know Leave a Comment

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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, inequality and climate change. They argue a paradigm shift is needed away from high-input, chemical-dependent, corporate controlled farming models and toward agroecological approaches that can provide more abundant and nutritious foods, protect biodiversity and address the structural inequalities at the heart of the hunger crisis.

This fact sheet links to reports and news articles describing these concerns. We update it regularly.

Table of contents (drop links) 
Top recent Gates Foundation food-related news
Opposition from African groups
UN Food Systems Summit controversy
Gates Foundation funding for agricultural development
Critiques of the Green Revolution for Africa

GMOs in the Global South
Gates Foundation’s media influence
More Gates Foundation food news
U.S. Right to Know reporting 

Overview of critiques 

The Gates Foundation’s flagship agricultural program, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, works to transition farmers away from traditional seeds and crops to patented seeds, fossil-fuel based fertilizers and other inputs to grow commodity crops for the global market. The foundation says its goal is to “boost the yields and incomes of millions of small farmers in Africa… so they can lift themselves and their families out of hunger and poverty.” 

The strategy is modeled on the Indian “green revolution” that boosted production of staple crops but also left a legacy of inequity, environmental problems and entrenched corporate control over food systems, leading to a massive mobilization of peasant farmers who are demanding change. Several recent reports provide evidence that the Gates-led agricultural interventions in Africa have also failed to help small farmers and may be worsening the hunger and malnutrition crisis there.

“we write out of grave concern that the Gates Foundation’s support for the expansion of intensive industrial scale agriculture is deepening the humanitarian crisis.”

Letter from African faith leaders

Against this backdrop, agribusinesses interests and private donors, including the Gates Foundation, are staging what critics describe as power plays to solidify control over global agriculture policies at the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit. These include proposals to implement a new framework for food systems governance and centralize control over agricultural research centers. This is “a high-stakes battle over different visions of what constitutes legitimate science and relevant knowledge for food systems,” says the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems, and “part of a broader battle over what food systems should look like and who should govern them.”

Most recent Gates Foundation food-related news

  • Why criticism against ‘green revolution’ is growing: AGRA is now hard-pressed to demonstrate its achievements after 15 years and one billion dollars in funding, by Julius Sigei, Expression Africa (10.13.21)
  • African agriculture without African farmers: Mass dispossession of smallholder farmers is not a side effect of the ‘African Green Revolution’. It is the whole point. by Alex Park, Siera Vercillo, Al Jazeera (10.9.21)
  • The Gates Foundation Avoids a Reckoning on Race and Power: Can philanthropy decolonize? Only if wealthy donors grapple with the difference between giving away money and actually sharing power. by Tim Schwab, The Nation (10.6.21)
  • Groups call for stop to AGRA funding as hunger crisis worsens in Africa, by Stacy Malkan, Expression Africa (9.25.21)
  • Africa’s green revolution initiative has faltered: why other ways must be found, by Timothy Wise, The Conversation (9.14.21)
  • AGRA on spot over food insecurity despite huge donor funding, The Nation East Africa (9.4.21)
  • African groups want Gates Foundation, USAID to shift agricultural funding as hunger crisis worsens, by Stacy Malkan, U.S. Right to Know (9.8.21)
  • Africans publicly challenge Green Revolution backers, by Cecelia Heffron, Food Tank (9.21)
  • African lobby groups urge for investments in nature-based farming to overcome hunger, Xinhua News Agency (9.2.21)

Recent statements opposing Gates’ interventions in African food systems 

  • Africa’s largest civil society network calls on Western governments, private foundations to stop funding industrial agriculture in Africa, Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (9.2.21)
    • AFSA letter to Gates Foundation (6.6.21)
    • 200 Organizations Urge Donors To Scrap ‘Green Revolution; for Africa, AFSA and allies (9.6.21)
  • 500 African faith leaders write to Gates Foundation: “Big farming is no solution for Africa,” Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute (8.3.21)
    • Faith leaders’ letter to Gates Foundation (9.20)
  • Presbyterian Church USA ministries call for support of African farmers; 1.7 million member church joins 200 organizations asking donors to end support for industrial farming in Africa (9.21)
  • Industrial Agriculture Is No Solution for Africa, by Francesca de Gasparis and Gabriel Manyangadze, Capital News Kenya (8.31.21)
  • Webinar: How the Gates Foundation Sponsors the Corporate Capture of Global Food Systems, Community Alliance for Global Justice (8.19.21)
  • Bill Gates: Stop Telling Africans What Kind of Agriculture Africans Need, by Million Belay and Bridget Mugambe. Scientific American (7.6.21)

UN Food Systems Summit controversy (read more about Gates Foundation role here)

  • Interim report on UN Food Systems Summit process and shortcomings, Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food (posted 9.13.21)
  • Beware UN Food Systems Summit Trojan Horse, by Jomo Kwame Sundaram. IPS News (7.26.21)
  • Withdrawal from the UN Food Systems Summit, Memo from the IPES-Food panel (7.26.21)
  • Hijacking food systems: technofix takeover at the FSS: The wrong kind of Food Systems Summit, report by ETC Group (7.23.21)
  • Scientists and academics petition against UN Food Systems Summit, by May Davies. Quota (7.20.21)
  • Hundreds of grassroots organizations to oppose the UN Food Systems Summit, Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism (CSM) for relations to the UN Committee on World Food Security, Press Release (7.19.21)
  • The UN Summit on Food Systems: The Critique, by Marion Nestle, Food Politics (7.14.21)
  • An IPCC for Food? How the UN Food Systems Summit is being used to advance a problematic new science-policy agenda, International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (7.21)
  • Open letter on “One CGIAR,” the problematic restructuring of global agricultural research centers, International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (7.20)
  • What’s holding back investment in agro ecological research? International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems, Biovision, Institute of Development Studies (4.20).

African groups call for shift in funding, political advocacy 

Food sovereignty and civil society groups, faith leaders, and farmer, labor and environmental organizations across Africa have raised concerns for many years about Gates Foundation’s agricultural development strategies for Africa, and the foundation’s sway over public spending and government policies. 

“They talk about transforming African agriculture but what they are doing is creating a market for themselves.”

Million Belay, AFSA

In dozens of reports since 2007, the South Africa-based African Centre for Biodiversity has documented numerous problems with the Gates-led “green revolution” for Africa. These include subsidy deals, growing corporate control of the seed sector, expanding use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, escalation to more toxic pesticides as pests develop resistance to genetically modified (GMO) seeds, soil degradation, loss of biodiversity and negative impacts on small farmers. The group and many others are calling for a transition to agroecological practices and policies that allow food sovereignty.

African groups have also called out the neocolonial dynamics of Gates Foundation funding for Africa. These critics say the foundation and other private donors, investors, agribusiness corporations and Western governments are pushing a false narrative that Africa’s farmers need to buy patented seeds and agrichemicals developed by Western corporations in order to produce enough food.  They say African farmers and communities should decide how to shape Africa’s food systems. 

Resources and statements from African groups  

  • Africa’s largest civil society network calls on Western governments and private foundations to stop funding industrial agriculture in Africa, Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa press release, September 2, 2021
    • AFSA letter to donors of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, June 6, 2021
    • 200 Organisations Urge Donors To Scrap AGRA, AFSA press release, September 6, 2021
  • Industrial Agriculture Is No Solution for Africa, by Francesca de Gasparis and Gabriel Manyangadze, Capital News Kenya, August 31, 2021
  • Open letter to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation signed by 500 people of faith and from faith community representatives from the African continent
    • African faith communities tell Gates Foundation: “Big farming is no solution for Africa,” Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute press release, August 3, 2021
    • Open Letter: African Faith Communities Call On Gates Foundation, “Stop Pushing Industrial Agriculture” SAFCEI press release, March 10, 2021
  • A Sting in the AGRA Tale: Independent expert evaluations confirm that the Alliance for a Green Revolution has failed, report by Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (Uganda), Association Monde Rural (Burkina Faso), et al., July 2021
  • Bill Gates: Stop Telling Africans What Kind of Agriculture Africans Need, by Million Belay and Bridget Mugambe. Scientific American, July 6, 2021 
  • African Civil Society Refuses To Engage With UN Food Systems Summit Without Radical Change, Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, May 3, 2021. See also Dr. Agnes Kalibata response and AFSA response June 18, 2021
  • Southern African civil society responds to false claims about GM benefits to food and nutrition security, African Centre for Biodiversity statement, June 18, 2021 
  • Seed is Power video series, Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa videos describe African farmers’ concerns about patented hybrid and GMO seeds and the importance of seed sovereignty, June 2021
  • Harmonisation of seed laws in Africa, Regional and continental integration under the auspices of the African Continental Seed Harmonisation initiative and the African Continental Free Trade Area, African Centre for Biodiversity, May 17, 2021 
  • Bayer breathing life into Gates’ failed GM drought tolerant maize, African Centre for Biodiversity briefing paper, April 28, 2021
  • African Center for Biodiversity Reaction to the Regional Dialogue on African Food Systems, March 4, 2021
  • African Organizations Demand Answers from AGRA, BIBA Kenya, PELUM Zambia, HOMEF Nigeria, September 7, 2020 
  • Groups and individuals call on African governments to withdraw from AGRA, Webinar with HOMEF, African Faith and Justice Network, Navdanya International, August 12, 2020 
  • Africa Says “I Can’t Breathe”: An African Civil Society Perspective on Systemic Racism, by Million Belay. Common Dreams, June 10, 2020 
  • Seeds Of Neo-Colonialism: Why the GMO Promoters Get It So Wrong About Africa, Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, May 2018

Recent reporting and perspectives on African food systems 

  • Africa’s green revolution initiative has faltered: why other ways must be found, by Timothy Wise, The Conversation, Sept. 14, 2021
  • African groups want Gates Foundation, USAID to shift agricultural funding as hunger crisis worsens, by Stacy Malkan, U.S. Right to Know, Sept. 8, 2021
  • Africans publicly challenge Green Revolution backers, by Cecelia Heffron, Food Tank, September 2021
  • African lobby groups urge for investments in nature-based farming to overcome hunger, Xinhua News Agency, September 2, 2021
  • Fiddling in Nairobi While Africa Goes Hungry, by Timothy Wise, IPS News, August 31, 2021
  • Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa ‘fails to deliver on promise to double yields’, by Inga Vesper, SciDevNet, August 20, 2021 
  • Webinar: How the Gates Foundation Sponsors the Corporate Capture of Global Food Systems, Community Alliance for Global Justice, August 19, 2021
  • African Faith Leaders Call on The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Drop African Green Revolution, by Cecelia Heffron, Food Tank, August 4, 2021
  • African Faith Communities plead with Gates Foundation to stop pushing for industrial agriculture, by Farmers Review Africa, Further Africa, August 4, 2021
  • Whose seeds are they anyway? Peasants’ call for common ownership, by Michelle Langrand,  Geneva Solutions, July 9, 2021 
  • Tracing the history of farming across Africa gives clues to low production outputs, by Henning Bjornlund, André F. Van Rooyen and Vibeke Bjornlund, The Conversation, July 6, 2021
  • Synthetic Pesticide Use in Africa: Impact on People, Animals, and the Environment, edited by Charles Wilson, Don Huger, CRC Press, July 2021
  • How Biotechnologies are Shaping Kenya’s Food Ecosystem, by Daniel Maingi. The Elephant, May 7, 2021 
  • A locust plague hit East Africa. The pesticide solution may have dire consequences. by Tristan McConnell, National Geographic, March 24, 2021 
  • The next neocolonial gold rush? African food systems are the ‘new oil,’ UN documents say, by Stacy Malkan. U.S. Right to Know, March 9, 2021
  • Faiths institute asks Gates Foundation to change tactics in Africa by Fredrick Nzwili, Catholic News Service, February 2021
  • Bill & Melinda Gates: The Dystopia of the Green Revolution in Africa, by Nicoletta Dentico, Health Justice Programme, Society for International Development (SID), October 2020
  • See also, Critiques of the Gates Foundation’s green revolution for Africa

UN Food Systems Summit controversy 

The World Economic Forum, the Gates Foundation and other private donors, including the Rockefeller Foundation, are key players influencing the controversial 2021 UN Food Systems Summit. Hundreds of groups are protesting and boycotting the Summit because of the dominant role of corporate agribusiness and agenda many critics say will further entrench a harmful industrial agribusiness model. 

“A misguided technological revolution is about to sweep through food systems, but civil society and social movements can stop it in its tracks.”

Nick Jacobs, IPES-Food, Common Dreams 

The summit is led by Special Envoy Agnes Kalibata, president of the Gates Foundation-funded Alliance for a Green Revolution for Africa (AGRA). Her chief of staff is Adam Gerstenmier, formerly of AGRA and the Gates Foundation. UN insiders have harshly criticized the summit process, saying its leaders have ignored human rights, marginalized civil society and restructured the UN process to shift power away from the UN Committee on World Food Security into the hands of a small set of private sector actors.  

“Few people will dispute that global food systems need transformation, but this UNFSS is instead an effort by a powerful alliance of multinational corporations, philanthropies, and export-oriented countries to subvert multilateral institutions of food governance,” IPES-Food wrote in a June 3 Tweet thread. The expert panel announced June 26 that they will withdraw from the Summit. 

Statements critiquing the food summit 

  • Interim report on UN Food Systems Summit process and shortcomings, Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, September 13, 2021
  • Withdrawal from the UN Food Systems Summit, Memo from the IPES-Food panel, July 26, 2021
  • Academic articles, letters and critical briefs: a cohort of academics following the food summit are posting content at this link
  • Article repository on UNFSS compiled by the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism for Relations with the UN Committee on World Food Security
  • Hundreds of grassroots organizations to oppose the UN Food Systems Summit, Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism (CSM) for relations to the UN Committee on World Food Security, Press Release, July 19, 2021
  • The UN Food Systems Summit: obstructing the transformation of corporate food systems, FIAN International, Policy Brief, July 2021
  • African Civil Society Refuses To Engage With UN Food Systems Summit Without Radical Change, Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, May 3, 2021. See also Dr. Agnes Kalibata response and AFSA response, June 18, 2021
  • People’s movement to counter UN summit; call to reclaim food systems from corporate control, press release and media kit, Global People’s Summit on Food Systems, June 5, 2021 
  • Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism letter to the CFS Chair on Food Systems Summit, CSM for relations with the UN Committee on World Food Security, March 23, 2021
  • Scientists Boycott the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit, Agroecology Research-Action Collective and letter in Spanish, April 15, 2021
  • 2021 UN Food Systems Summit sounds like a good thing, but…, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), February 10, 2021 
  • Open letter by the UN Food Rapporteur to Agnes Kalibata Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General, by Michael Fakhri, Special Rapporteur on the right to food, January 13, 2021.
  • Video interviews: Professor Michael Fakhri’s struggle with the summit leadership and What’s at stake at UNFSS
  • New Report: A Summit Under Siege! Position Paper on UN Food Systems Summit 2021, Conner Nakamura. Community Alliance for Global Justice, January 4, 2021
  • Position Paper: “A Summit Under Siege” | Corporate control of 2021 UN Food Summit endangers food sovereignty, La Via Campesina, December 10, 2020 
  • The Man Behind the Curtain: The Gates Foundation’s influence on the UN Food Systems Summit, Community Alliance for Global Justice report, August 2020 
  • Via Campesina denounces UN Special Envoy for the UN Food Systems Summit for diminishing peasants and their rights,  La Via Campesina, February 26, 2020
  • Call to Revoke AGRA’s Agnes Kalibata as Special Envoy to 2021 UN Food Systems Summit, Oakland Institute and 175 organizations, February 10, 2020

Reports about food systems governance and transformation   

  • Hijacking food systems: technofix takeover at the FSS: The wrong kind of Food Systems Summit, report by ETC Group, July 23, 2021
  • An ‘IPCC for food? How the UN Food Systems Summit is being used to advance a problematic new science-policy agenda, International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems briefing paper, July 7, 2021 
  • A unifying framework for food systems transformation: A call for governments, private companies & civil society to adopt 13 key principles, by IPES Food, IFOAM, Agroecology Europe, FiBL, Regeneration International,  July 2021 
  • CONNECTING THE DOTS: Policy Innovations for Food Systems Transformation in Africa, A Malabo Montpellier Panel Report, July 2021
  • UN Food Systems Summit 2021: Dismantling Democracy and Resetting Corporate Control of Food Systems, by Matthew Canfield, Molly Anderson, Philip McMichael, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. April 13, 2021
  • A Long Food Movement: Transforming Food Systems by 2045, by IPES-Food and ETC Group, March  30, 2021.
  • This food crisis is different: COVID-19 and the fragility of the neoliberal food security order, by Jennifer Clapp and William Moseley, the Journal of Peasant Studies, October 2020
  • A call for food system change, by Marion Nestle, The Lancet, May 30, 2020
  • The Next Agribusiness Takeover: Multilateral Food Agencies, ETC Group, February 2020
    • Three big battles for food policy looming, ETC Group
  • Agroecological and other innovative approaches for sustainable agriculture and food systems that enhance food security and nutrition, High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition for the UN FAO, 2019  
  • United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas, resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council, September, 28 2018
  • Agriculture at a crossroads: International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development, published by United Nations Environment Program, 2009
    • Ten years after the IAASTD report – still business as usual? Co-published by Benny Haerlin and Hans R. Herren, “with 31 contributions from 40 experts who criticize the current dominating food systems and provide evidence “that a real paradigm shift has emerged and that change is happening all over the globe.”

News coverage and perspectives on food summit 

  • Beware UN Food Systems Summit Trojan Horse, by Jomo Kwame Sundaram. IPS News, July 26, 2021
  • As concerns over the UN Food Systems Summit mount, civil society’s hunger for change deepens, by Kira Walker. Equal Times, July 23, 2021
  • Q&A: The United Nations agroecology negotiations and Food System Summit, by Cecelia Heffron and Shiney Varghese, IATP, July 23, 2021
  • Scientists and academics petition against UN Food Systems Summit, by May Davies. Quota, July 20, 2021
  • UN Food System Summit Plants Corporate Solutions and Plows Under People’s Knowledge, by Agroecology Research-Action Collective, by Maywa Montenegro de Wit, Molly Anderson, Barbara Gemmill-Herren, Jessica Duncan, Nora McKeon, Matt Canfield, Alastair Iles, and Jan Douwe van der Ploegi. Agroecology Research-Action Collective, July 16, 2021
  • The UN Summit on Food Systems: The Critique, by Marion Nestle, Food Politics, July 14, 2021.
  • New UN hunger report spotlights controversial UN Food Systems Summit, U.S. Right to Know, July 14, 2021.
  • Weaponizing Science in Global Food Policy, by Maya Montenegro, Matthew Canfield and Alastair Iles. Inter Press Service, June 25, 2021 
  • Agroecology grassroots solutions to a global crises, Agroecology Fund video, produced by Rucha Chitnis, June 11, 2021
  • Opinion: Why reinvent the wheel on food security and nutrition? By Jennifer Clapp, Martin Cole, Thanawat Tiensin. Devex, May 21, 2021
  • Transforming food systems is within reach, Agnes Kalibata. Nature Food, May 20, 2021
  • Struggle for the Future of Food, by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, IPS News, May 10, 2021
  • We Should All Be Worried About The United Nations Food Systems Summit, by A Growing Culture. Medium, May 1, 2021
  • Is Agroecology Being Co-Opted by Big Ag? by Lisa Held. Civil Eats. April 20, 2021 
  • The world needs a food movement based on agroecology and equity, by Pat Mooney. Mongabay, April 21, 2021
  • Six Months to Prevent a Hostile Takeover of Food Systems, and 25 Years to Transform Them, by Nick Jacobs. Common Dreams April 7, 2021
  • UN Food Systems Summit: How Not to Respond to the Urgency of Reform, by Michael Fakri, Hilal Elver, Olivier De Schutter. IPS News, March 22, 2021
  • The UN food systems summit will consider all stakeholders’ interests, by Agnes Kalibata. The Guardian, March 9, 2021
  • Farmers and rights groups boycott food summit over big business links. The Guardian, March 4, 2021
  • Why we’re tracking Bill Gates plans to remake our food systems, by Stacy Malkan. U.S. Right to Know, February 26, 2021.
  • UN Rapporteur to Agnes Kalibata: Food Systems Summit needs human rights at its core, by Lise Colyer. Quota, January 14, 2021
  • UN under fire over choice of ‘corporate puppet’ as envoy at key food summit, Saeed Kamali Dehghan and Kaamil Ahmed, The Guardian, March 12, 2020

How the Gates Foundation funds agricultural development

The Gates Foundation has spent nearly $6 billion on agricultural development programs, with a primary focus on transforming African food systems. Several groups have analyzed the foundation’s agricultural development funding. The following themes emerge from that research. 

Funding researchers and groups in the North, not farmers in Africa. A June 2021 analysis of 1,130 Gates Foundation grants for agriculture since 2003 found the grants are “heavily skewed to technologies developed by research centres and corporations in the North for poor farmers in the South, completely ignoring the knowledge, technologies and biodiversity that these farmers already possess,” according to the GRAIN research group. Many of the grants were given to “groups that lobby on behalf of industrial farming and undermine alternatives,” GRAIN wrote. 

Supporting industrial agriculture: As many as 85% of Gates Foundation-funded agricultural research projects for Africa “were limited to supporting industrial agriculture and/or increasing its efficiency via targeted approaches,” according to a 2020 report by IPES-Food. The foundation “looks for quick, tangible returns on investment, and thus favours targeted, technological solutions.” Just 3% of Gates Foundation projects included elements of agroecological redesign.  

The largest recipient of Gates agricultural grants is CGIAR (formerly the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research), the world’s largest global agricultural research network. The Gates Foundation has donated over $1.3 billion to the influential research centers. In a July 2020 letter, IPES-Food raised concerns about Gates Foundation’s involvement in a “coercive” process to centralize control of the CGIAR research network into “One CGIAR” with a centralized board and new agenda setting powers. The reforms on the table “risk exacerbating power imbalances in global agricultural development,” IPES said. 

Expanding markets for commercial seeds and fertilizer: The second largest single recipient of Gates grant funding for agriculture is the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) with $638 million in grants to date. AGRA’s primary focus is increasing farmers’ access to commercial seeds and fertilizers that AGRA said would boost yields and lift small farmers out of poverty. This “green revolution” technology package of commercial seeds and agrichemicals is further supported by about $1 billion per year in subsidies from African governments, but evidence shows these interventions have not delivered the promised boost in yields or incomes (see “green revolution” section below).  

Removing barriers to agribusiness expansion: The Gates Foundation is among the five top donors (along with the US, UK, Danish, and Dutch governments) of the World Bank’s Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) program that guides policymaking for pro-business reforms in the agriculture sector. The Oakland Institute and GRAIN research group have produced several reports about efforts by the World Bank and its funders to strengthen private property and intellectual property rights, and promote large-scale land acquisitions that benefit private actors. 

Reports on Gates Foundation funding and influence 

  • How the Gates Foundation is driving the food system in the wrong direction, GRAIN research group, June 17, 2021.  
    • Gates Foundation grants for agriculture from 2003-2021
    • GRAIN 2014 analysis on Gates Foundation spending
    • Gates foundation spends bulk of agriculture grants in rich countries, by John Vidal. The Guardian, November 3, 2014 
    • Gates Foundation refutes report it fails African farmers, by Karrie Kehoe. Reuters, November 5, 2014
  • Gates to a Global Empire over Seed, Food, Health, Knowledge …and the Earth, Navdanya International reports from 20 authors from a broad range of groups describing Gates’ food and agriculture work, October 2020.
  • Money Flows: What Is Holding Back Investment In Agroecological Research For Africa?, International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems report, April 2020.
  • ‘One CGIAR’ with two tiers of influence? Open letter from IPES-Food on the plan to centralize CGIAR network, July 2020
  • BMG Foundation and IRRI: Corporate Hijack of Rice Science, by Chito P. Medina, October 2020
  • Our Land Our Business Campaign, 280 civil society groups demand an end to the World Bank ranking programs.
    • Joint statement from groups and recent updates on World Bank EBA programs 
    • The Highest Bidder Takes It All: The World Bank’s Scheme to Privatize the Commons, Oakland Institute, January 24, 2019
    • Down on the Seed: The World Bank Enables Corporate Takeover of Seed, Oakland Institute, January 2017 
    • The Unholy Alliance, Five Western Donors Shape a Pro-Corporate Agenda for African Agriculture, Oakland Institute, May 24, 2016
  • Gates Foundation “dangerously skewing” development agenda according to new report, Global Justice Now, January 2016 
  • Reports about land grabs, GRAIN, 2008 to 2021.  

Gates Foundation perspectives

  • Gates Foundation agricultural development program page 
  • How African farmers are adapting to climate change, by Laura Birx, Gates Foundation, March 19, 2021
  • Global Coalition Promises More than $650 Million to Accelerate CGIAR Efforts to Help 300 Million Smallholder Farmers Adapt to Climate Change, CGIAR press release, September 23, 2019
  • Helping Poor Farmers, Changes Needed to Feed 1 Billion Hungry, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2012
  • A Green Revolution for Africa? by David Rieff, New York Times Magazine, October 10, 2008

Critiques of the “Green Revolution” for Africa 

The Gates Foundation’s flagship program for changing African agriculture is the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). The group works to encourage farmers to use hybrid seeds, fossil-fuel based fertilizers and agrichemicals to grow staple crops for the global market, with the goal of boosting yields and raising farmer incomes. AGRA promised to double yields and incomes for 30 million farming households by 2020. The deadline has passed (and the language since removed from AGRA’s website) with no comprehensive reporting on progress.

Independent assessments by Tufts Global Development and Environment Institute and African and German groups provide evidence that AGRA has not delivered significant yield or income gains for small farmers while hunger has grown by 30% across AGRA’s target countries. AGRA disagreed with the research but has not released data evaluating its results for over 15 years.

From the start, food policy experts predicted the green revolution for Africa would not solve hunger and poverty, because it ignored structural inequalities and the harsh lessons of the first green revolution in India. Over the past year, farmers in India have launched protests to oppose corporate control of their food systems and deepening inequality. 

Independent reports

  • A Sting in the AGRA Tale: Independent expert evaluations confirm that the Alliance for a Green Revolution has failed, report by Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (Uganda), Association Monde Rural (Burkina Faso), et al., July 2021
  • The Rhetoric and Farmers’ Lived Realities of the Green Revolution in Africa: Case Study of the Brong Ahafo Region in Ghana, by James Boafo and Kristen Lyons. Journal of Asian and African Studies, May 2021
  • False Promises: The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, report by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, BIBA Kenya, , TABIO, Forum on Environment and Development, INKOTA, IRPAD, FIAN Germany, Brot für die Welt, PELUM, TOAM, Tufts GDAE, July 2020.
    • Interne Gutachten bestätigen: Die Allianz für eine Grüne Revolution ist gescheitert. Analyse der Anfang des Jahres 2021 veröffentlichten AGRA-eigenen Evaluierungen aus den Jahren 2019/2020, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, et al, July 2021.
    • A Sting in the AGRA Tale: Independent expert evaluations confirm that the Alliance for a Green Revolution has failed, report by Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (Uganda), Association Monde Rural (Burkina Faso), et al., July 2021
  • Failing Africa’s Farmers: An Impact Assessment of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, by Timothy A. Wise, Tufts Global Development and Environment Institute, July 2020
    • New AGRA Reports Offer Little Evidence to Justify Continued Donor Support, IATP Policy Brief, July 21, 2021.
    • Throwing Good Money After Bad: Failing Green Revolution program readying billion-dollar fund drive, by Timothy A. Wise, IATP, July 1, 2021.
    • AGRA Update: Withheld internal documents reveal no progress for Africa’s farmers, IATP, February 25, 2021
  • Old Fertilizer in New Bottles: Selling the Past as Innovation in Africa’s Green Revolution, by Timothy A. Wise, Tufts University Global Development and Environment Institute, February 2021
  • Micro(soft) managing a ‘green revolution’ for Africa: The new donor culture and international agricultural development, by Rachel Schurman, World Development, October 2018
  • Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA): Laying the groundwork for the commercialisation of African Agriculture, by Stephen Greenberg, African Centre for Biodiversity, October 2012.

AGRA perspectives and reports 

  • Nurturing Change Across Africa, AGRA 2020 annual report, July 9, 2021
  • AGRA Emerging Results 2017 – 2020, July 9, 2021
  • AGRA annual reports 2007-2020
  • Choice and Opportunity for African Farmers Will Transform Africa, by AGRA President Agnes Kalibata, IPS News, December 7, 2020
  • AGRA Statement on the Report by Inkota, July 11, 2020 
    • Correspondence between AGRA and African groups, September 2020

News coverage and critical perspectives

  • Why criticism against ‘green revolution’ is growing: AGRA is now hard-pressed to demonstrate its achievements after 15 years and one billion dollars in funding, by Julius Sigei, Expression Africa (10.13.21)
  • African agriculture without African farmers: Mass dispossession of smallholder farmers is not a side effect of the ‘African Green Revolution’. It is the whole point. by Alex Park, Siera Vercillo, Al Jazeera (10.9.21)
  • African groups want Gates Foundation, USAID to shift agricultural funding as hunger crisis worsens, by Stacy Malkan, U.S. Right to Know, Sept. 8, 2021
  • 200 Organisations Urge Donors To Scrap AGRA, Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, press release, September 6, 2021
  • Africans publicly challenge Green Revolution backers, by Cecelia Heffron, Food Tank, September 2021
  • African lobby groups urge for investments in nature-based farming to overcome hunger, Xinhua News Agency, September 2, 2021
  • Africa’s largest civil society network calls on Western governments and private foundations to stop funding industrial agriculture in Africa, Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa press release, September 2, 2021
  • Industrial Agriculture Is No Solution for Africa, by Francesca de Gasparis and Gabriel Manyangadze, Capital News Kenya, August 31, 2021
  • Fiddling in Nairobi While Africa Goes Hungry, by Timothy Wise, IPS News, August 31, 2021
  • Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa ‘fails to deliver on promise to double yields’, by Inga Vesper, SciDevNet, August 20, 2021
  • African Faith Leaders Call on The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Drop African Green Revolution, by Cecelia Heffron, Food Tank, August 4, 2021
  • Throwing good money after bad: Failing Green Revolution program readies billion-dollar fund drive, by Timothy Wise. Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, July 2, 2021
  • Ghana’s farmers aren’t all seeing the fruits of a Green Revolution, by James Boafo and Kristen Lyons. The Conversation, June 14, 2021.
  • Farm Protests in India are Writing the Green Revolution’s Obituary, by Aniket Aga. Scientific American, January 24, 2021
  • Bill Gates’s Foundation Is Leading a Green Counterrevolution in Africa, by Jan Urhahn, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. Jacobin magazine, December 2020
  • How the Green Revolution Is Harming Africa, by Jayati Ghosh, chair of the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University.International Political Sociology journal, October 14, 2020
  • “It’s a Vicious Cycle,” Mamadou Goïta of IRPAD on the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, 2020
  • Pressure builds on Gates Foundation AGRA for accountability, by Timothy A. Wise, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, October 13, 2020
  • Africa at the Crossroads: Time to Abandon Failing Green Revolution, by Million Belay and Timothy A Wise. IPS News, September 23, 2020
  • Address Malnutrition with Food Insecurity, by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, economist, former Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development in the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. IPS News, August 2020
  • Africa food organization ‘fails to deliver on promise to double yields.’ SciDev, August 24, 2020
  • Has Africa’s green revolution failed?, Deutsche Welle, August 15, 2020
  • Gates ‘Failing Green Revolution in Africa’, by Stacy Malkan. The Ecologist, August 14, 2020
  • US Groups Invest Billions in Industrial Ag in Africa. Experts Say It’s not Ending Hunger or Helping Farmers.” Civil Eats, August 11, 2020
  • Ten Reasons Why the Green Revolution Will Not Solve Poverty and Hunger in Africa, by Eric Holt-Giménez, Miguel Altieri and Peter Rosset. Food First. October 1, 2006

GMOs in the Global South

Bill Gates has said genetically engineered crops will “end starvation in Africa,” and he invests heavily in GMO research and development. But African governments, civil society and farmer organizations have long resisted GMO crops. They cite many concerns, including corporate control of seed stock, loss of traditional crops and local seed varieties, higher cost of GMO seeds, increased use of herbicides associated with GMO crops, the limitations of GMO crops to perform in complex environments, and doubts the crops will ever live up to the promotional hype. 

“The empirical record of GM crops for poor small farmers in the Global South has not lived up to expectations.”

Brian Dowd-Uribe, USFCA

The two largest introductions of GMO crops for small farmers in the Global South — Bt cotton crops in Burkina Faso and India — have been problematic for small farmers. Burkina Faso abandoned its genetically modified Bt cotton experiment after the seeds failed to deliver the same quality as the homegrown variety. In India, 20 years of data on Bt cotton found no yield increase associated with the crops, and determined that farmers are now spending more on pesticides than before the introduction of Bt due in part to insect resistance. A 2020 study in African Affairs found that nearly 30 years of strategic and well-funded efforts to bring GMOs to Africa have so far yielded very little. 

In South Africa, most of the country’s staple maize food crop is genetically modified to resist glyphosate-based Roundup herbicides. The International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the  World Health Organization, classifies glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen, and many local groups have raised health concerns about the prevalent use of the herbicides. 

Reports and articles about GMOs in the Global South   

  • Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn. Supporters say that could reverse years of damage from U.S. trade policy, by Renee Alexander, Simran Sethi. The Counter, July 19, 2021
  • Golden Rice’s unfulfilled promise, by Crispin Maslog. SciDevNet, May 22, 2021
  • Bayer breathing life into Gates’ failed GM drought tolerant maize, by Sabrina Masinjila and Rutendo Zendah, African Centre for Biodiversity, April 28, 2021 
  • Knowledge politics and the Bt cotton success narrative in Burkina Faso, by Jessie Luna and Brian Dowd-Uribe. World Development, December 2020 
  • Does Kenya Need GMO Cassava? Ask the World Food Prize-winner Who Saved Africa’s Cassava, by Timothy Wise. Food Tank, October 2020
  • Long-term impacts of Bt cotton in India, by K.R. Kranthi and Glenn Davis Stone, Nature Plants, October 2020 
  • Gates to a Global Empire over Seed, Food, Health, Knowledge …and the Earth, Navdanya International reports from 20 authors from a broad range of groups describing Gates’ food and agriculture work, October 2020. 
  • The Golden Rice Hoax, by Vandana Shiva, October 2020.
  • How the “success story” of genetically modified cotton in Burkina Faso fell apart, by Jessie Luna and Brian Dows-Uribe. Quartz Africa, September 4, 2020
  • Push back against risky and unsafe RNAi GM cassava cultivation in Kenya, African Centre for Biodiversity, September 2, 2020
  • How power shaped the ‘success story’ of genetically modified cotton in Burkina Faso, by Brian Dowd-Uribe. The Conversation, August 30, 2020
  • GMOs in South Africa 23 years on: failures, biodiversity loss and escalating hunger, African Centre for Biodiversity, August 3, 2020
  • The complex choreography of agricultural biotechnology in Africa, by Joeva Rock and Rachel Schurman. African Affairs, July, 29 2020
  • Serious concerns over Bt brinjal, by Aniket Aga. The Hindu, June 18, 2019
  • Failure of Monsanto’s drought tolerant maize pushed on Africa – confirmed in US, African Center for Biodiversity, March 4, 2019 based on 2019 USDA report
  • How Bt brinjal hurt the farmers of Bangladesh, Down to Earth, February 17, 2019
  • ‘Adoption’ & abandoning of Bt brinjal cultivation: Farmers’ Experience Survey, UBINIG, September 12, 2019
  • “We Are Not Starving:” Challenging Genetically Modified Seeds and Development in Ghana, by Joeva Rock, PhD, Agriculture, Food and Environment, 2018
  • Feeding East Africa – locals skeptical of GM crops, Deutsche Welle, January 2, 2018
  • Forcing the Farm: How Gene Drive Organisms Could Entrench Industrial Agriculture and Threaten Food Sovereignty, ETC Group, October 16, 2018 
  • Bound to fail: The flawed scientific foundations of agricultural genetic engineering by Michael Antoniou, PhD, Head of the Gene Expression and Therapy Group, King’s College London School of Medicine; GM Watch, November 21, 2018
  • How Monsanto’s GM cotton sowed trouble in Africa, by Joe Bavier. Reuters, December 8, 2017 
  • Debate over glyphosate rages in South Africa, DW, by Leah Albrect, January 27, 2017
  • Manipulate and mislead: How GMOs are infiltrating Africa, by Haidee Swanby, Mariann Bassey Orovwuje. Common Dreams, February 23, 2015 
  • Who benefits from GM crops? The expansion of agribusiness interests in Africa through biosafety policy. Friends of the Earth International, February 2015
  • What Bill Gates gets wrong on GE, every time, Pesticide Action Network, 2012
  • The corporate shaping of GM crops as a technology for the poor, by Dominic Glover. Journal of Peasant Studies, January 2010 
  • New Green Revolution for Africa: Trojan Horse for GMOs, African Centre for Biodiversity, 2007

Statements from NGOs and scientists 

  • A Call to Protect Food Systems from Genetic Extinction Technology: 200 groups oppose the release of gene drive technology in Africa and elsewhere, ETC Group, 2020
  • Seeds Of Neo-Colonialism: Why The GMO Promoters Get It So Wrong About Africa, Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, 2018
  • No scientific consensus on GMO safety, statement signed by 300 independent researchers. Environmental Sciences Europe, 2015

Gates influence on media and food narratives

“News about (Bill) Gates these days is often filtered through the perspectives of the many academics, nonprofits, and think tanks that Gates funds. Sometimes it is delivered to readers by newsrooms with financial ties to the foundation,” reported Tim Schwab in Columbia Journalism Review. He documents more than $250 million in Gates grants to a variety of top news outlets.

“paid Cornell Alliance for Science fellows — under the guise of scientific expertise — launched vicious attacks.”

Fern Holland, Hawaii Alliance for Progressive Action, Cornell Daily Sun

The Gates Foundation also funds many groups that work to shape public views on agriculture. One example is the Cornell Alliance for Science, a communications campaign based at Cornell University, launched with a Gates Foundation grant in 2014 to “depolarize the charged debate” around GMOs.” The group trains global fellows, particularly in Africa, to promote GMOs in their home countries. Cornell Alliance for Science affiliates were also active in opposing pesticide regulations in Hawaii. Gates Foundation has donated $22 million to the group.

Cornell Alliance for Science critiques 

  • Bill Gates: Stop Telling Africans What Kind of Agriculture Africans Need, by Million Belay and Bridget Mugambe. Scientific American, July 6, 2021 
  • Gates Foundation doubles down on misinformation as African groups call for agroecology, by Stacy Malkan, U.S. Right to Know, September 30, 2020
  • Experts in agroecology withdraw from Cornell Alliance for Science Agroecology Webinar, citing bias, Community Alliance for Global Justice, September 30, 2020
  • Mark Lynas’ (Cornell Alliance for Science) inaccurate, deceptive promotions for the agrichemical agenda, by Stacy Malkan. U.S. Right to Know, August 8, 2020
  • Messengers of Gates’ Agenda: A Case Study of the Cornell Alliance for Science Global Leadership Fellows Program, Community Alliance for Global Justice, August 7, 2020
  • Students Should Continue to Question the Ethics of the Cornell Alliance for Science, by Fern Holland, Hawaii Alliance for Progressive Action. The Cornell Daily Sun, November 19, 2019
  • Mark Lynas slammed for exploiting African farmers’ images to promote GMOs, African Centre for Biodiversity press release, 2018
  • Mark Lynas’ unauthorized use of farmer’s images in misleading and unethical tactics to promote GM crops in Tanzania, report by Eugenio Tisselli, PhD, and Angelika Hilbeck, PhD, 2018
  • Gates Foundation Grants Additional $6.4 million to Cornell’s Controversial Alliance for Science, Independent Science News, November 1, 2017

Reporting on Gates’ media influence

  • Journalism’s Gates Keepers, by Timothy Schwab. Columbia Journalism Review, August 21, 2020
  • ‘When money is offered, we listen’: foundation funding and nonprofit journalism, by Jacob Nelson and Patrick Ferrucci. Columbia Journalism Review, January 10, 2020
  • The media loves the Gates Foundation. These experts are more skeptical, by Julia Belluz. Vox, 2015
  • Does Gates funding of media taint objectivity? Seattle Times, 2011
  • The Web Grows Wider; Gates Foundation partnerships with the Guardian and ABC News further complicate global health coverage, by Robert Fortner. Columbia Journalism Review, October 8, 2010
  • How Ray Suarez Really Caught the Global Health Bug: The Gates Foundation, global health, and the media, by Robert Fortner. Columbia Journalism Review, October 7, 2010
  • Not many speak their mind to Gates Foundation, by Sandi Doughton. Seattle Times, 2008

More Gates Foundation news  

  • The Gates Foundation Avoids a Reckoning on Race and Power: Can philanthropy decolonize? Only if wealthy donors grapple with the difference between giving away money and actually sharing power. by Tim Schwab, The Nation (10.6.21)
  • Bill Gates Can Remove Melinda French Gates From Foundation in Two Years, by Nicholas Kulish, New York Times, July 7, 2021 
  • Warren Buffett’s Exit From the Gates Foundation Clouds Its Future, by Michael J. de la Merced and Nicholas Kulish, New York Times, June 23, 2021 
  • McDonald’s french fries, carrots, onions: all of the foods that come from Bill Gates farmland, by April Glaser. NBC News, June 8, 2021
  • Despite the Headlines, the Gates Foundation Has Evaded Scrutiny, by Tim Schwab. The Nation, June 7, 2021 
  • The Big Stakes in the Gates Divorce, By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Jason Karaian, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni. New York Times, May 4, 2021
  • Bill Gates, Climate Warrior. And Super Emitter, by Tim Schwab. The Nation, February 16, 2021
  • The Gates Foundation: Philanthropy or Power Grabbing? by Marion Nestle, Food Politics, January 20, 2021
  • Bill Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner, by Eric O’Keefe, The Land Report, January 11, 2021 
  • Bill Gates Gives to the Rich (Including Himself), by Tim Schwab. The Nation, Marcy 17, 2020
  • Dark cloud over good works of Gates Foundation, by Charles Piller, Edmund Sanders and Robyn Dixon. Los Angeles Times, January 7, 2007
  • See also LA Times story gallery for more reporting based on 18-month investigation of the Gates Foundation in 2007.

Reporting by U.S. Right to Know 

  • African groups want Gates Foundation, USAID to shift agricultural funding as hunger crisis worsens, by Stacy Malkan, U.S. Right to Know, Sept. 8, 2021
  • New hunger report spotlights controversial UN Food Systems Summit, by Stacy Malkan, July 14, 2021.
  • Bill Gates’ radical menu for food systems: ultra-processed foods, patents and monocrops, by Stacy Malkan. May 26, 2021 
  • The next neocolonial gold rush? African food systems are the ‘new oil,’ UN documents say, by Stacy Malkan. March 9, 2021. 
  • Why we’re tracking Bill Gates’ plans to remake our food systems, by Stacy Malkan. February 26, 2021 
  • Bill Gates’ plans to remake food systems will harm the climate, by Stacy Malkan. February 25, 2021 
  • Gates Foundation doubles down on misinformation campaign at Cornell as African leaders call for agroecology, by Stacy Malkan. September 30, 2020 
  • Gates ‘failing green revolution in Africa’ by Stacy Malkan. The Ecologist, August 14, 2020 
  • Bill Gates Is on a Mission to Sell GMOs to Africa, but He’s Not Telling the Whole Truth, by Stacy Malkan. Alternet, March 22, 2016
  • Why is Cornell University hosting a GMO propaganda campaign?, by Stacy Malkan. The Ecologist, January 22, 2016

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  • dhaas on Crypto dreams show a range of price volatility: “Thank you for sharing brother. God bless you” Jan 18, 08:46
  • dhaas on Prophetic messages reveal price movements for ETH and SAITAMA: “Thank you for sharing brother. God bless you” Jan 18, 06:32
  • Prophetic Nurse on PART I: BEAST TECHNOLOGY IN THE GROCERY MARKETS: “I haven’t seen the QR code here but a lot of these companies mimic each other. Especially to please their…” Jan 15, 16:54
  • Prophetic Nurse on PART I: BEAST TECHNOLOGY IN THE GROCERY MARKETS: “Most definitely.” Jan 15, 10:12
  • Aaron Jewell on PART I: BEAST TECHNOLOGY IN THE GROCERY MARKETS: “Read about it here: https://one.amazon.com/” Jan 12, 20:26
  • James Bailey on Bitcoin dreams reveal increased volatility: “Yesterday I saw 4165, confirming previous price targets very close to that, but no timing was shown. I’ve been getting…” Jan 12, 10:04
  • Ben on Prophetic Dream Reveals Unrighteous Woman Leading America: “2030 is the year when so many northern people, especially americans will flee to the equatorial places for survival, but…” Jan 11, 23:11
  • Yann Bieri on XRP: “Thank you for sharing this Annie Marie. About two weeks i had a dream about XRP. I have had crypto…” Jan 11, 05:19
  • deborah2221 on PART I: BEAST TECHNOLOGY IN THE GROCERY MARKETS: “Quick note – I believe what will happen is that grocery and other stores will offer payment choices for a…” Jan 10, 19:37
  • deborah2221 on PART I: BEAST TECHNOLOGY IN THE GROCERY MARKETS: “These are already in the California Bay Area. There is as yet no implant, it’s just scanning and reading your…” Jan 10, 19:33
  • MattNZ on “I am unleashing the hordes of hell.”: “Maria, good to hear from you again.” Jan 9, 22:43
  • Prophetic Nurse on WELCOME TO 2023!: “Hi Tim, Trust me I understand what you mean. I’m glad to hear the video was enlightening. A lot of…” Jan 9, 20:44
  • Marcio on “I am unleashing the hordes of hell.”: “Heaven Land Devotions – Fortitude Makes The Heavenly Crown By Joanie Stahl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms03cuDZkQ8” Jan 9, 15:02
  • Marcus on Bitcoin dreams reveal increased volatility: “James, there is large open interest at 4100 do you think we might get there on this upside?” Jan 9, 11:05
  • Gary on Prophetic dream warns of attack from within destroying America’s food supplies: “Yours is not the only dream or revelation I have heard of a destruction coming to America. There are many,…” Jan 8, 22:56
  • Ant on “I am unleashing the hordes of hell.”: “Oh my Maria, What a tough word to release! The Lord said in Luke 18:8 we will get justice if…” Jan 6, 06:00
  • BAR on “I am unleashing the hordes of hell.”: “https://rumble.com/v23gacc-2023-01-01-john-hallers-prophecy-update-here-we-went-and-here-we-go-again.html Starting at 29:38 for zombies(?) “reanimate’ was the word used, and the image of the beast via AI and…” Jan 5, 22:04
  • Marcus on Bitcoin dreams reveal increased volatility: “Thank you for sharing. It’s helpful. God bless you.” Jan 5, 18:42
  • James Bailey on Bitcoin dreams reveal increased volatility: “There might be another small drop soon but I’m expecting a big move up prior to a larger drop. I…” Jan 5, 17:30
  • Marcus on Prophetic Dream Reveals Unrighteous Woman Leading America: “I had a dream that Kamala Harris wins 2024 and some blonde women was her VP” Jan 5, 07:25
  • Phil - Sydney on “I am unleashing the hordes of hell.”: “welcome back Maria Happy 2023 and also to you James Bailey Phil” Jan 5, 00:06
  • Marcus on Bitcoin dreams reveal increased volatility: “James, do you think the 3889 you’re looking for is fulfilled and are heading down?” Jan 4, 19:30
  • Tim Lee on WELCOME TO 2023!: “Wow, thank you! You really spoke to me in your video. 2022 was the worst year for a fiery trial…” Jan 4, 15:51
  • Prophetic Nurse on Prophetic Dream Reveals Unrighteous Woman Leading America: “I mentioned Celestial in my comments too. I’ve been following that channel since she released the first video. I will…” Jan 2, 03:13
  • Prophetic Nurse on Prophetic Dream Reveals Unrighteous Woman Leading America: “I also heard of this prophecy by William Branham from 1933. Evangelist/Pastor Perry Stone released a video about this in…” Jan 1, 14:46
  • Silent Warrior on Prophetic dream warns of destructive beetles: “Yes, I think firearms and food will be very important for the coming days.” Dec 28, 19:12
  • Silent Warrior on Bitcoin dreams reveal low flash crash prices and $25,000: “You are welcome, Daniel.” Dec 28, 19:01
  • Silent Warrior on Encouragement for the Bitcoin flash crash: “You are welcome, Bill!” Dec 28, 19:00
  • Silent Warrior on Encouragement for the Bitcoin flash crash: “You are welcome! I think checking every 30 days would be a good idea. God bless.” Dec 28, 18:59

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