Critics say the Gates Foundation’s push to expand chemical-intensive monocrop farming in Africa is exacerbating hunger, worsening inequality and entrenching corporate power in the world’s hungriest region.
Planning documents for the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit shed new light on the agenda behind the controversial food summit that hundreds of farmers’ and human rights groups are boycotting. These groups say agribusiness interests and elite foundations have commandeered the UN negotiations to advance an economic agenda that would exploit food systems, especially … The next neocolonial gold rush? African food systems are the ‘new oil, ’ UN documents say
By Stacy Malkan In his book on how to avoid a climate disaster, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates discusses his plans to model African food systems upon India’s “green revolution,” in which a plant scientist increased crop yields and saved a billion lives, according to Gates. The obstacle to implementing a similar overhaul in Africa, he … Bill Gates’ plans to remake food systems will harm the climate
Research from Tufts GDAE finds the billion-dollar Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa is not living up to its promises A longer version of this article ran in The Ecologist By Stacy Malkan Massive investments spent promoting and subsidizing commercial seeds and agrichemicals across Africa have failed to fulfill their purpose of alleviating hunger … Report documents Gates Foundation’s ‘failing’ Green Revolution for Africa
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