Gates Foundation 'feeds the world' with corporate agriculture

The Ecologist
Nov 4, 2014, 5:28 am13 pts
The Gates Foundation spends half a billion dollars a year to 'feed the world', most of it aimed at Africa. But as GRAIN discovers, it is imposing a model of high-tech, high-input 'green revolution' farming, with GMOs, agro-chemicals and a pro-business neoliberal agenda, all in in alliance with corporate…

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