Video: Gates Foundation Spent Billions Pushing Commercial Fertilizers and Pesticides, GMO Seeds on Small African Farmers

By B.N. Frank

Last year 200 organizations claimed that the Gates Foundation-funded Alliance for a Green Revolution had “unequivocally failed in its mission” and “harmed broader efforts to support African farmers”.  Video series “Rich Appetites” reveals more unsavory details.

From Children’s Health Defense:

Under Guise of ‘Charity,’ Gates Foundation Pushes Pesticides, GMOs on Small Farmers

The video series “Rich Appetites” takes a look at what’s behind the push for industrial agriculture in Africa. The third segment in the series, “Money,” examines who stands to benefit if Africa embraces agribusiness.

By Susan C. Olmstead

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) spent about $6 billion on agriculture over the past 17 years. The money was earmarked to help small farmers in Africa and the rest of the global south.

Instead, the money wound up in the hands of institutions in the U.S. and Europe, according to “Money,” the third video in the three-part series “Rich Appetites: How Big Philanthropy Is Shaping the Future of Food in Africa.”

The film series, developed by the Uganda-based Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) and AGRA Watch, explains why exporting the U.S. industrial agribusiness model to Africa is a “grave mistake.”

The three short films are “Foundations” (covered here), “Seeds” (covered here) and “Money.”

‘Rich Appetites: Money’

“Money” takes a close look at who stands to benefit from the growth of industrial agriculture in Africa.

While building a reputation as a “brainiac do-gooder” trying to make the world a better place, Bill Gates of the BMGF imposed an agribusiness model on Africa against its people’s best interests, claims the film.

With its huge endowment, the BMGF “is one of the most powerful forces influencing agricultural development in Africa and the world,” according to the film.

The BMGF and the Rockefeller Foundation claimed that Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) would bring about a “Green Revolution” in Africa by increasing the productivity of small farms, thus lifting people out of poverty and alleviating hunger.

AGRA promised this through the use of “improved inputs” including fertilizer and “advanced seeds.”

But instead, productivity has remained at the same level it was before AGRA, farmers are further in debt and hunger increased by 30% in AGRA’s focus countries, the film claims.

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In its drive to impose an agribusiness model on Africa, the BMGF:

• Funds AGRA’s push to convince farmers to adopt industrial farming practices involving commercial fertilizer and pesticides.
• Funds the Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology, which lobbies African regulators to allow foreign biotech companies to enter the market.
• Created the African Biosafety Network of Expertise, which influences policy and encourages the use of genetically modified (GM) crops.
• Helps western agribusiness corporations get African farmers to use their products by using “tactics of charity and donations” to “lock in new customers.”
• Funds the Cornell Alliance for Science, a journalist training program that aggressively pushes pro-GM propaganda.

Despite its outsized power — eclipsing even that of entire nations’ elected governments — the BMGF answers to no one but itself, the film points out, and is free to act in its own interest using untaxed, donated money.

What the BMGF is doing in Africa cannot be called “charity,” and is vocally opposed by the very groups it is supposed to be helping, says the film.

In fact, it calls philanthrocapitalism a new form of colonialism.

“They want the continent to be a seamless trading post,” said Mariam Mayet, the executive director of the African Centre for Biodiversity.

Watch part 3 of “Rich Appetites” here:

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Children’s Health Defense.

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