Bill Gates's Foundation Is Leading a Green Counterrevolution in Africa
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Re: Bill Gates's Foundation Is Leading a Green Counterrevolution in Africa
#2"The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation promised Africa a “Green Revolution” to fight hunger and poverty. It hasn't worked — but it has upped corporate agriculture’s profits."
It's almost like it was always about the profit. Strange
Re: Bill Gates's Foundation Is Leading a Green Counterrevolution in Africa
#3Ah, another of Jacobin's crusades against foreign investments.
Re: Bill Gates's Foundation Is Leading a Green Counterrevolution in Africa
#4Tangentially related, but isn't small scale farming, especially in poorer countries, something that's on its way out? Like if you are a farmer, you work hard and send your kids to school. Your kids will probably then move to the city or at least a more populous area and take up a job other than farming. As this happens more and more, doesn't the population of small scale farmers decrease to the point where we have to rely more on large scale farms?
While I don't have enough knowledge on the subject to comment directly on article, I want to ask, based on the above, does it make sense to invest in small-scale farms?
Re: Bill Gates's Foundation Is Leading a Green Counterrevolution in Africa
#5Ah, another of Jacobin's crusades against foreign investments.
You should debate the facts not the motives.
I had no clue about this situation but it doesn't look very well. Introducing continent-wide IP-law for seeds, getting farmers into debt by having them used only approved fertilisers and then showing virtually no productivity increase against the baseline shows no redeeming quality to the program.
But hey, Gates will be declared a saint in the next 10 years so who is this little mag site to comment?
Re: Bill Gates's Foundation Is Leading a Green Counterrevolution in Africa
#6Ah, another of Jacobin's crusades against foreign investments.
You should debate the facts not the motives. I had no clue about this situation but it doesn't look very well. Introducing continent-wide IP-law for seeds , getting farmers into debt by having them used only approved fertilisers and then showing virtually no productivity increase against the baseline shows no redeeming quality to the program. But hey, Gates will be declared a saint in the next 10 years so who is this…
The program follows practices already common in the West. That means it makes it easier to convince Western companies to make long term investments there without fear of some arbitrary action to their assets (cough-Sakhalin-2-cough).
But yeah, important thing is that the western upper-middleclass has a convenient boogeyman to vilify in a digestible form for day-time viewing.
Re: Bill Gates's Foundation Is Leading a Green Counterrevolution in Africa
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should debate the facts not the motives. I had no clue about this situation but it doesn't look very well. Introducing continent-wide IP-law for seeds , getting farmers into debt by having them used only approved fertilisers and then showing virtually no productivity increase against the baseline shows no redeeming quality to the program. But hey, Gates will be declared a saint in the next 10 years so who is this…
The program follows practices already common in the West. That means it makes it easier to convince Western companies to make long term investments there without fear of some arbitrary action to their assets ( cough -Sakhalin-2- cough ). But yeah, important thing is that the western upper-middleclass has a convenient boogeyman to vilify in a digestible form for day-time viewing.
Oh who will think about the western investors!
Re: Bill Gates's Foundation Is Leading a Green Counterrevolution in Africa
#8Ah, so the "Green Revolution" is ferts and hybrid seeds, monocrops and pesticides. Once big agriculture kills all the bees with monocrops and pesticides, big agro along with Gates can rebrand world hunger to global hunger and claim they're fighting against it.
Re: Bill Gates's Foundation Is Leading a Green Counterrevolution in Africa
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should debate the facts not the motives. I had no clue about this situation but it doesn't look very well. Introducing continent-wide IP-law for seeds , getting farmers into debt by having them used only approved fertilisers and then showing virtually no productivity increase against the baseline shows no redeeming quality to the program. But hey, Gates will be declared a saint in the next 10 years so who is this…
The program follows practices already common in the West. That means it makes it easier to convince Western companies to make long term investments there without fear of some arbitrary action to their assets ( cough -Sakhalin-2- cough ). But yeah, important thing is that the western upper-middleclass has a convenient boogeyman to vilify in a digestible form for day-time viewing.
> The program follows practices already common in the West.
Is this supposed to be some kind of defense?
Re: Bill Gates's Foundation Is Leading a Green Counterrevolution in Africa
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The program follows practices already common in the West. That means it makes it easier to convince Western companies to make long term investments there without fear of some arbitrary action to their assets ( cough -Sakhalin-2- cough ). But yeah, important thing is that the western upper-middleclass has a convenient boogeyman to vilify in a digestible form for day-time viewing.
> The program follows practices already common in the West. Is this supposed to be some kind of defense?
It is as much of a defense as saying that software which needs to unzip files needs to implement at least the deflate algorithm.