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Bill Gates's Crash-Prone Agra

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Sun, 01 Sep 2024 04:35:08 +0000 via Nomád - Streams CLOSED AFTER SEPTEMBER 30.

Successive Zambian administrations have been among the most enthusiastic adopters of the kinds of policies recommended by the Gates Foundation. The country is a poster-child for Agra’s drive to industrialise African agriculture, having implemented in 2009 a new subsidy programme to incentivise farmers to switch to commercial seeds and intensive fertiliser use. More than a million farmers did.
But, instead of increasing yields, the new approach simply increased farmers’ vulnerability to climate shocks like the current drought, the new report concludes.

- https://continent.substack.com/p/bill-gates-big-agriculture-and-the

#BillGates #BillGatesAgra #EngineerAgriculture #AfricanAgriculture #GreenRevolution
/HT The Continent @The Continent

Industrial Agriculture Zambia Climate Crisis Billionaire Crisis Bill Gates Agra Green Revolution

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Sun, 01 Sep 2024 04:51:46 +0000 via mastodon

> “But now governments and agribusiness have pushed farmers into #monoculture that depends on inputs. Their programmes have made us all vulnerable.”
> It’s not just Zambia: broader continental studies have also cast doubt on the effectiveness of Agra’s policy proposals, including one.. by the Gates Foundation.. along with Agra’s other funders. That study, released two years ago, found “#Agra did not meet its headline goal of increased incomes and #FoodSecurity for 9-million smallholders.”
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Wed, 04 Sep 2024 10:03:24 +0000 via Nomád - Streams CLOSED AFTER SEPTEMBER 30.

“Bill Gates and big agribusinesses are playing god,” said Durban-based cleric Bishop Takalani Mufamadi. “They claim to be messiahs of the hungry and the poor, but they have failed dismally to deliver because of the industrialisation approach, which degrades soils, destroys biodiversity, and values corporate profit over people. It is immoral, sinful and unjust.”
Mufamadi was speaking on Wednesday on behalf of the Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute, which called for the Gates Foundation to commit to “reparations” to repair the damage its agricultural policies have caused in Africa. Although he would not be drawn on a specific figure, he said that the foundation must work with the people who have been harmed to “repair the land and the water table”.

- https://continent.substack.com/p/bill-gates-big-agriculture-and-the

#TakalaniMufamadi #Mufamadi #BillGatesAsGod #BillGatesReparations #BillGatesInAfrica

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Wed, 04 Sep 2024 10:06:18 +0000 via mastodon

> the Gates Foundation has used its enormous political and monetary influence to crowd out alternative ideas. “I’m not saying that African governments have no agency, they do also have agency, but they are tied up with debt and other money challenges, which opens the door for the Gates Foundation and other big funders to come and influence our policies and strategies.”
#MillionBelay
Alliance for #FoodSovereignty in Africa
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