From globalresearch.ca
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.
In 2014 GRAIN published a detailed breakdown of the grants made by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to promote agricultural development in Africa and other parts of the world.1 Our main conclusion then was that the vast majority of those grants were channelled to groups in the US and Europe, not Africa nor other parts of the global South. The funding overwhelmingly went to research institutes rather than farmers. They were also mainly directed at shaping policies to support industrial farming, not smallholders.
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Oh yes, the second colonisation is going on. ;-/ Give people things they do not need, and let them pay in rates. They will be happy, and loose the small property they have. Similar to here, in Bavaria. Since over 20 years our people getting newest cars and houses, they never would have bought with own money. They are paying in rates, and as a result – for politicans and the bigger businesses a win – based on this they cant leave the area, have to do what the feudalistic ruling politicans command. xx Michael
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Yes, that was a well planned colonization in Bavaria. The same thing happens everywhere.
In Australia I have seen an advertisement for mobile phones featuring an African boy: He talked for 1 minutes and would be in debt for the rest of his life !
In Singapore airport lounge, you DO have internet connection at a price of USD40,000/Gigabyte versus USD2/Gigabyte in Australia.
(https://survivaltricks.wordpress.com/2019/01/01/avoiding-outrageous-costs-of-roaming-during-oversea-travel/).
That is selling people something they don’t need at outrageous price !
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