Critiques of Gates Foundation agricultural interventions in Africa
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a major influencer and funder of agricultural development in Africa, with little accountability or transparency. Leading experts in food security and many...
September 8, 2022
Genetic Literacy Project: PR Front for Monsanto, Bayer and the Chemical Industry
Genetic Literacy Project is an influential front group that partners with Bayer and other chemical companies to promote GMO foods and pesticides and argue for deregulation. Bayer paid the Genetic...
July 14, 2022
Center for Food Integrity: PR for processed foods, pesticides and GMOs
The Center for Food Integrity (CFI), formerly the Grow America Project, is an industry-funded 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization that conducts research, lobbying and public relations campaigns to...
April 26, 2022
Alison Van Eenennaam: key outside spokesperson and lobbyist for the agrichemical and GMO industries
Alison Van Eenennaam, PhD, a Professor of Cooperative Extension in Animal Biotechnology and Genomics at University of California, Davis, is a leading promoter of genetically engineered animals,...
April 12, 2022
IFIC: How Big Food Spins Bad News
Documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know and other sources shine light on the inner workings of the International Food Information Council (IFIC), a trade group funded by large food and agrichemical...
April 12, 2022
International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) is a Food Industry Lobby Group
The International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) is a corporate-funded nonprofit organization based in Washington DC, with 17 affiliated chapters around the world. ILSI describes itself as a group...
March 22, 2022
Confronting potential food industry ‘front groups’: IFIC case study
New study in Globalization and Health Confronting Potential Food Industry ‘Front Groups’: Case Study of the International Food Information Council’s nutrition communications using the...
February 12, 2022
Paraquat Papers – Updates to U.S. litigation
Multiple lawsuits are pending in the United States against Syngenta alleging the weedkilling chemical paraquat causes Parkinson's disease. A notice of settlement was filed June 18, 2021 for...
November 18, 2021
African groups want Gates Foundation, USAID to shift agricultural funding as hunger crisis worsens
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...
September 8, 2021
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September 8, 2021