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Critiques of Gates Foundation’s agricultural interventions in Africa

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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.

The next neocolonial gold rush? African food systems are the ‘new oil, ’ UN documents say

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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