🗞️ 'Industrial #agriculture receiving bulk of #Africa’s agricultural development funding'
💵 "Investments by Bill & Melinda @gatesfoundation, #Kenya and #Switzerland still reinforce status quo in agricultural research," write @Nipashetz #MoneyFlows
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"New data shows that only a fraction of agricultural research funding in #Africa is being used to transform #food and farming systems. Only 3% of @gatesfoundation projects in Africa support sustainable, regenerative approaches – or #agroecology," says #Tanzania's @Nipashetz
"The #MoneyFlows report looks at investments in sub-Saharan Africa with a focus on #Switzerland, a major bilateral donor, the @gatesfoundation, the biggest philanthropic investor in agri-#development, and #Kenya, one of Africa’s leading recipients and implementers of '#AgR4D'."
“It’s clear that in #Africa as elsewhere, vested interests are propping up agricultural practices based on an obsession with technological fixes that is damaging soils & livelihoods, & creating a dependency on the world’s biggest agri-businesses. #Agroecology offers a way out."
"The #MoneyFlows report finds that support for agroecology is now growing across the agri-development community, particularly in light of #climatechange, but this hasn’t yet translated into a meaningful shift in funding flows."
🌿 What is #agroecology? ipes-food.org/_img/upload/fi…
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