The Gates Foundation … Driving the Food System, In the Wrong Direction

[bigwave]

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 channeled to groups in the U.S. 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.

 

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. (2)

 

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. (3) The African Centre for Biodiversity published a string of reports denouncing the Gates Foundation for pushing GMOs and other harmful technologies onto Africa. (4) 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. (5)

 

GRAIN wondered whether the Gates Foundation had been receptive to the criticism of its food and agriculture funding. So we set out to update our 2014 report, downloaded the Foundation’s publicly available grant records and created a database of all of the Foundation’s grants in the area of food and agriculture from 2003 to 2020 — almost two decades worth of grant-making. (6)

 

The results are sobering. From 2003 to 2020 the Foundation dished out a total of 1130 grants for food and agriculture, worth nearly $6 billion of which almost $5 billion is supposed to service Africa. There was no shift to try and reach groups in Africa directly, no refocusing away from the narrow technological approach, and no moves to embrace a more holistic and inclusive policy agenda.

 

Of course, the Gates Foundation is about much more than just making grants. The Foundation’s Trust Fund, which manages the Foundation’s endowment, has big investments in food and agribusiness companies, buys up farmland, and has equity investments in many financial companies around the world. (7) These, and other activities of Gates in the area of food and agriculture, are illustrated in the infographic that accompanies this report. (8)

https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/the-gates-foundation-driving-the-food-system-in-the-wrong-direction/

[MyLadiesDaddy]

Even wanna be Antichrist have an expiration date. 

[patrickgold]

17 hours ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

Even wanna be Antichrist have an expiration date. 

So true!

[patrickgold]

23 hours ago, bigwave said:

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 channeled to groups in the U.S. 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 system" rel="">support industrial farming, not smallholders.

 

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. (2)

 

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. (3) The African Centre for Biodiversity published a string of reports denouncing the Gates Foundation for pushing GMOs and other harmful technologies onto Africa. (4) 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. (5)

 

GRAIN wondered whether the Gates Foundation had been receptive to the criticism of its food and agriculture funding. So we set out to update our 2014 report, downloaded the Foundation’s publicly available grant records and created a database of all of the Foundation’s grants in the area of food and agriculture from 2003 to 2020 — almost two decades worth of grant-making. (6)

 

The results are sobering. From 2003 to 2020 the Foundation dished out a total of 1130 grants for food and agriculture, worth nearly $6 billion of which almost $5 billion is supposed to service Africa. There was no shift to try and reach groups in Africa directly, no refocusing away from the narrow technological approach, and no moves to embrace a more holistic and inclusive policy agenda.

 

Of course, the Gates Foundation is about much more than just making grants. The Foundation’s Trust Fund, which manages the Foundation’s endowment, has big investments in food and agribusiness companies, buys up farmland, and has equity investments in many financial companies around the world. (7) These, and other activities of Gates in the area of food and agriculture, are illustrated in the infographic that accompanies this report. (8)

https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/the-gates-foundation-driving-the-food-system-in-the-wrong-direction/

Bill Gates is a bad, bad boy with a demented mind.

[bigwave]

14 hours ago, patrickgold said:

Bill Gates

I don't know how he is still walking around...

[whatsfordinar?]

Watch the first 15 parts of the video documentary "The sequel to the fall of the cabal' on Bitchute by Fallcabal  ....Gates has his hands in EVERYTHING and is much worse than you can imagine--this article is just the tip of the iceberg...which he is steering us toward... THE SEQUEL TO THE FALL OF THE CABAL - PART 1 (bitchute.com) 

 

[PeaceSign]

9 hours ago, bigwave said:

I don't know how he is still walking around...

The real bill gates prob died years ago

[bigwave]

57 minutes ago, PeaceSign said:

The real bill gates prob died years ago

Your probably right - the "real BG" did not cooperate and the deep state axed him and his wife...

 

But still the current bg is still walking and talking and that is perplexing to me.