The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent nearly US$6 billion over the past 17 years trying to improve agriculture, mainly in Africa. This is a lot of money for an underfunded sector, and, as such, carries great weight. To better understand how the Gates Foundation is shaping the global agriculture agenda, GRAIN analysed all the food and agriculture grants the foundation has made up until 2020. We found that, while the Foundation’s grants focus on African farmers, the vast majority of its funding goes to groups in North America and Europe. The grants are also 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. Also, despite the Foundation’s focus on techno-fixes, much of its grants are given to groups that lobby on behalf of industrial farming and undermine alternatives. This is bad for African farmers and bad for the planet. It is time to pull the plug on the Gates’ outsized influence over global agriculture.
Editor’s Note: This scholarly study was compiled by GRAIN, a small international non-profit organization that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems. It was edited by Children’s Health Defense and published by Uncanceled News in an effort to help expose what Bill and Melinda Gates are doing to the nation and the world.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has spent nearly $6 billion over the past 17 years trying to improve agriculture, mainly in Africa. This is a lot of money for an underfunded sector, and, as such, carries great weight. To better understand how the Gates Foundation is shaping the global agriculture agenda, GRAIN analyzed all the food and agriculture grants the foundation has made up until 2020.
We found that, while the Foundation’s grants focus on African farmers, the vast majority of its funding goes to groups in North America and Europe. The grants are also heavily skewed to technologies developed by research centers and corporations in the North for poor farmers in the South, completely ignoring the knowledge, technologies and biodiversity that these farmers already possess.
Also, despite the Foundation’s focus on techno-fixes, much of its grants are given to groups that lobby on behalf of industrial farming and undermine alternatives. This is bad for African farmers and bad for the planet. It is time to pull the plug on the Gates’ outsized influence over global agriculture.
Much has happened since then. For starters, Bill and Melinda Gates announced their divorce in May this year, leaving the future of the Foundation and its grant-making in doubt. The news came as Bill Gates himself came under fire for supporting Big Pharma‘s patent monopoly on COVID-19 vaccines, for effectively preventing people’s access across much of the world, and for how he treats — or mistreats — women.
The Foundation’s agenda with agriculture has also been coming under increased scrutiny. A 2020 report from Tufts University concluded that its work in Africa completely failed to meet the objectives that it had set itself. The African Centre for Biodiversity published a string of reports denouncing the Gates Foundation for pushing GMOs and other harmful technologies onto Africa. Amongst all this, the U.S. Right to Know collective started a “Bill Gates Food Tracker” to monitor the multiple initiatives that Gates is involved in to reshape the global food system.
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A word to the wise - -Support your "local" farmers and growers; visit your local Farmers' Market, OR grow your own.
He's the largest land owner in America. He's buying up thousands and thousands of acres, especially around waterways. I do believe he's a Rochefeller, and evil to the core. I don't understand WHY he, Soros, Fauci, and others are allowed to be in this country or do business here. Gates has done so much damage to people, killed many. Here's some really indepth info on Gates. https://www.bitchute.com/video/F1dXQ1szMdXl/
Gates is pure EVIL he should be in jail for all the misery he has caused around the world with his vaccines
This guy is out of his ever loving mind....
another Mengele. So that is 2 with Fauci.
I can understand the ultra-wealthy to want to do good things for others but why has this charity focuses its efforts in foreign countries?????? First the deal in India where now kids that he had inoculated are having major health issues and then Africa? Is it because there isn't much oversight in foreign countries or does he hate America so much that won't put a dime into rebuilding Detroit or clean up Chicago???
Time to invoke the anti-trust and monopoly laws of the US in a very focused way... Gates's illegal use of corporate power to fix prices and markets is already illegal and it is time to enforce the laws of the United States against such the development of FEUDAL capitalism. Monopolies and rigged markets can be achieved by holding less than 1/3rd of the corporate stocks, by simply owning a majority of the stock of KEY CORPORATIONS, in the market one seeks to dominate and control.
The manipulation of the corporate boards which establish the ebb and flow of various markets... can be achieved without holding an absolute majority of the stock held in those key corporations. Leveraged control of corporate boards by single interests, individuals, or small groups of elites, must be monitored for engaging in monopolistic policy to gain control of the market.
Enforcement of the Anti-Trust and Monopoly laws will bring back balance to the marketplace. If the market is left to the current trends, ownership, and control of our key industries will be held by the mega-wealthy... regardless of market forces. We will be in danger of becoming a feudal economy.