Thread by @StacyMalkan

Let's talk about @BillGates @gatesfoundation food + ag agenda. It's not just the #patents; plans to ramp up ultra-processed foods and #monocrops; uncertainty about #GMO experiments (on animals, gene drives) but also who decides, who benefits? bit.ly/3yDZyNn 1/10

It's too much to fit in one article, that's why we're writing a series bit.ly/3uCSQoO - see statements (linked in post) from hundreds of groups representing hundreds of millions of people opposing Gates/WEF/agribusiness agenda playing out at @UN @FoodSystems Summit 2/10

The failures of the Gates-led "green revolution" to expand chemical industrial agriculture in #Africa are well documented, and long predicted by food system experts @foodfirstorg @eholtgim @altierimiguel foodfirst.org/publication/te… 3/10

In dozens of reports since 2007 @_ACBIO has documented problems w/ green revolution for #Africa: scandalous subsidies, growing corporate control over seeds, biodiversity loss, escalation to more toxic pesticides w/ #GMOs, harm to small farmers bit.ly/3hZEGua 4/10

Farmer protests in #India are "writing the green revolution's obituary," @AgaAniket reports in @sciam - yet these failed strategies are front and center at #UNFSS - how is that? Gates $$ and influence plays a role. scientificamerican.com/article/farm-p… 5/10

Another important element: who controls agricultural research agendas for Global South and climate change response? Gates Foundation is leading effort to restructure CGIAR under a centralized board in a “coercive” process; see @IPESfood concerns ipes-food.org/pages/OneGGIAR 6/10

20 more authors reporting here on problematic aspects of green revolution in #India, #Africa, and #BillGates’ “global empire over seed, food, health, knowledge and the Earth” bit.ly/3frwZeH via @NavdanyaInt 7/10

Gates Foundation is one of top 5 donors to World Bank program that is "shaping a pro-corporate agenda for African agriculture" including including private property and intellectual property rights, via @oak_institute bit.ly/3oZKqWq bit.ly/3hY0RRB 8/10

Tax-exempt private Gates Foundation runs programs that aid agribusiness agenda while Gates Foundation Trust invests in companies aided by some of these programs. Plenty to see and investigate there. 9/10

Last one for today (but there is more) - deceptive use of Ivy League brand here for BMGF-funded PR campaign @Cornell @ScienceAlly that trains fellows to promote "acceptance" of agrichemical products and #GMOs in Africa and elsewhere bit.ly/3toPJQn 10/10