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Pambazuka -Voices for Freedom and Justice in Africa
▶ HOW COMPANIES FRAME ISSUES OF FOOD AND GLOBAL HUNGER FOR THEIR OWN SELF-INTEREST AND BOTTOMLINE PROFITS
There is a new, but deceptive, foreign drive to end hunger in Africa through large-scale agribusiness. Yet helping poor households in rural Africa feed themselves in an affordable manner means introducing low-cost, sustainable enhancements to farming.
Corporate interests have hijacked African food and agricultural policy. They are behind a new green revolution for the continent that is pushing a capital-intensive approach with farms, supply chains and expanding international markets. This approach is a step backward to concepts of food security prevalent in the 1960s and 1970s. As a result, Africans will remain hungry.
History is riddled with examples of the poor dying of hunger when food was plentiful. Classic amongst these is the famine which wracked the West African Sahel during the early 1970s. While people were dying of hunger in Senegal, Mali and Niger, peanuts — a key sauce ingredient and source of protein across the region — were being exported to Europe....
...The rise of philanthrocapitalism in the US, where former and current business leaders, through the strength of their foundations, have increasingly come to influence the shape and direction of US international development programmes. Central to the philanthrocapitalist worldview is a belief that private enterprise is the fundamental agent of progressive change and that business acumen trumps other forms of expertise... http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/85291
July 18, 2013 OpenDemocracy, Sally Brooks
▶ "INVESTING" IN FOOD SECURITY? ON PHILANTHROCAPITALISM, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT http://www.opendemocracy.net/sally-brooks/investing-in-food-security-on-philanthrocapitalism-biotechnology-and-development
Boston Review, March 1, 2013
-▶ THE RISE OF THE MEGA FOUNDATION - Robert Reich http://www.bostonreview.net/forum/foundations-philanthropy-democracy
▶ GMO GENE GIANTS STOCKPILING PATENTS ON LIFE
Nagoya, Japan -- Under the guise of developing “climate-ready” crops, the world’s largest seed and agrochemical corporations are filing hundreds of sweeping, multi-genome patents in a bid to control the world’s plant biomass, according to a report released by ETC Group http://www.etcgroup.org/fr/node/5220
September 6, 2013 Greenpeace International
▶ AGRA: HELPING BIG AGRIBUSINESS "CONQUER" AFRICAN AGRICULTURE . Finally, we have confirmation of what we have long suspected: AGRA, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, has been created to facilitate the corporate takeover of African agriculture, not support African smallholder farmers with real solutions... http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/agra-agribusiness-africa-agriculture/blog/46511/
African Centre for Biosafety, November 18, 2013
▶A CRITICAL LOOK AT THE "ALLIANCE FOR A GREEN REVOLUTION IN AFRICA" (AGRA) - 2013 REPORT -- GIVING WITH ONE HAND, TAKING WITH TWO http://www.acbio.org.za/
VIDEO:
MYTHS ABOUT INDUSTRIAL "GREEN" AGRICULTURE IN AFRICA - Vandana Shiva http://www.globalonenessproject.org/library/interviews/mythology-green-revolution
July 18, 2013 Sahara Reporter
▶ AFRICA UNDER PRESSURE TO ACCEPT GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD AND MONOCULTURE FARMING SAYS NNIMMO BASSEY http://saharareporters.com/video/africa-under-pressure-accept-gmos-says-nnimmo-bassey
FOOD AID FOR THE 21st CENTURY
MEETING THE OBJECTIVE OR FEEDING THE BIG AG BIOTECH CHEMICAL CARTEL COFFERS?
▶ THE GREED REVOLUTION: MEGA FOUNDATIONS, AGRIBUSINESS THREATENS RATHER THAN SOLVE GLOBAL HUNGER http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/1708919323/the-greed-revolution-mega-foundations-agribusiness-threatens-rather-than-solve-global-hunger
WORLD'S TWO RICHEST MEN -- GATES AND SLIM -- LAUNCH BIOTECH GMO AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER IN MEXICO http://sco.lt/6JXz1N
▶ GENE GIANTS SEEK 'PHILANTHROGOPOLY' : 6 MULTINATIONAL GENE GIANTS CONTROL THE DIRECTION OF AGRICULTURE WORLDWIDE http://sco.lt/6h3lzt
▶ THE HUNGER GAMES ▶
HOW UK, USA, PHILANTHROPY SUPPORT FOR BIG AGRIBUSINESS IS FUELING POVERTY
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BILL GATES FOUNDATION
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GATES AND AFRICA
A TROJAN HORSE FOR GMO BIOTECH CARTEL IN SUB-SAHARA AFRICA http://sco.lt/5ZNnsX
Food Democracy Now, September 05, 2015
-▶ BILL GATES FOUNDATION GIVES MILLIONS TO TOP UNIVERSITY TO ADD A "STRONGER VOICE" TO PRO-GMO DEBATE
http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/blog/2014/sep/5
Ganaderia Mexico
▶ BILL GATES DEFENDS FOCUS ON HIGH-TECH AGRICULTURE AND HIS INVESTMENT IN GENETICALLY ENGINEERED AG http://ganaderiamexico.blogspot.com/2012/03/bill-gates-defends-focus-on-high-tech.html
March 21, 2013 -
- ▶ NOW WE'RE GOING TO BE EATING FERTILIZER - GATES FOUNDATION, AGAIN. Super gene-altered maize can put "sustainable" food on the table says Gates Foundation http://mbg.au.dk/en/news-and-events/news-item/artikel/super-maize-can-put-sustainable-food-on-the-table/
- ▶ CARGILL, GATES FOUNDATION AND OTHERS BEHIND ANTI-ORGANIC "STANFORD STUDY" http://ow.ly/dAb6N
- ▶ STANFORD'S MONSANTO / GATES TIES CAST DOUBT ON ORGANIC FOOD STUDY http://ow.ly/dA8s7
- ▶ BILL GATES SAYS SCIENCE-ENGINEERED LAB MEAT IS THE FUTURE OF FOOD (PATENTED OF COURSE) http://www.thegatesnotes.com/features/future-of-food
- ▶ GATES AS A TROJAN HORSE FOR BIOTECH CARTEL: GATES FOUNDATION POURS $10 MILLION INTO GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3441602427/gates-as-a-trojan-horse-for-biotech-cartel-gates-foundation-pours-10-million-into-genetically-modified-crops
- ▶ BILL GATES, MONSANTO HIJACK 'HUMANITARIAN AID' EFFORTS TO PUSH GMO AGENDA http://sco.lt/7mZ02D
BILL GATES, MONSANTO AND EUGENICS:
How One of the World's Wealthiest Men is Actively Promoting a Corporate Takeover of Global Health, Agriculture and Education
▶ BILL GATES FUNDS RISKY, UNPROVEN, UNREGULATED, UNLABELED GMO BANANAS FOR PREGNANT WOMEN IN INDIA AND TESTING GMO FORTIFIED BANANAS HEADED FOR AFRICA ON U.S.A. CONSUMERS http://sco.lt/8WS8Tx
▶ GM GOLDEN "FORTIFIED" RICE AND OTHER CROPS AND VITAMIN A OVERDOSE http://sco.lt/5imJAf
- ▶ VANDANA SHIVA: BILL GATES 'SO TOTALLY WRONG ON THIS ASSUMPTION THAT GENETICALLY MODIFIED SEEDS PRODUCE MORE' http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-and-gmos-gm/p/2174631053/vandana-shiva-on-the-latest-battleground-in-the-war-on-planet-earth-genetically-modified-seeds
▶ UN: PRIVATIZING FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL AID IS DANGEROUS.; OBAMA'S AFRICA PLAN IS WRONG http://sco.lt/82pjYP
VIDEO:
THE CHARITABLE-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX - PETER BUFFET
VIDEO
-▶ PETER BUFFET: BIG PHILANTHROPY AND PHILANTHROPY-FEUDALISM http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/20343-peter-buffett-big-philanthropy-and-philanthro-feudalism
The Nation, October 11, 2013
-▶ CAN BILLIONAIRE PHILANTHROPISTS REPLACE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT? http://www.thenation.com/article/176612/can-billionaire-philanthropists-replace-federal-government#
-▶ PLUTOCRATS AT WORK: HOW BIG PHILANTHROPY UNDERMINES DEMOCRACY http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/plutocrats-at-work-how-big-philanthropy-undermines-democracy
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AFRICA
WHEN WALL STREET WENT TO AFRICA
World Development Movement, June 24, 2014
▶ THE NEW SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA : INTERACTIVE INFOGRAPHIC
Around the early 1900s the European colonial powers built railways to connect the interior of Africa to the ports. They used this infrastructure to export food and minerals out of Africa to feed the industrial revolution in Europe. Over a hundred years later it’s happening all over again. Take a look at our latest infographic to see how.
http://www.wdm.org.uk/new-scramble-africa-food-dfid-infrastructure-extraction/
***** AFRICA - SOLD *****
OBAMA PUTS BIG 6 CHEMICAL GMO GIANTS IN CHARGE -- OF "ENDING HUNGER" IN AFRICA http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/1837261743/africa-sold-obama-puts-big-6-chemical-gmo-giants-in-charge-of-ending-hunger-in-africa
*** WATCH ***
Indepth Investigation From Al Jazeera
ARE GIANT AGRICULTURE FIRMS TRYING TO MONOPOLISE AND PATENT THE WORLD'S FOOD SUPPLY? -
BAN GMOs NOW
A Special Report: Institute of Science in Society
▶ Resources ▶
▶ May 5, 2013 African Center For Biosafety http://www.acbio.org.za/
▶ Independent Science News | Food, Health and Agriculture Bioscience News http://independentsciencenews.org/
▶ GENET: EUROPEAN NGO NETWORK ON GENETIC ENGINEERING
GENET-news is providing a daily news service on a range of topics regarding genetic engineering. We are screening the worldwide English news, press releases and other publications to provide you with a strategic selection of information. GENET-news enables you to stay informed about all aspects of the global controversy around GE technologies and GE organisms. You can subscribe by email... http://www.genet-info.org/information-services.html
