Kenya may soon allow the use of genetically-modified cotton and maize seeds following pressure from agribusiness giant Monsanto, USAID, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Source: RT International
The Water Efficient Maize for Africa (WEMA) partnership
Wow isn’t that a great name just makes you feel warm and fuzzy
is “a public/private partnership, led by the Kenyan-based African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF)
Another warm and fuzzy name
and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Howard G. Buffett Foundation, and USAID”.
AATF, “a partnership between USAID, the Rockefeller Foundation, Monsanto, Dupont/Pioneer, Dow Agrosciences, Syngenta, and Aventis” and funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), has lobbied for the use of GMO in Kenya
Virtually a who’s who of environmentally conscious companies.
In 2008, AATF received US$47 million from the Gates Foundation, which has been criticized by global activists for pushing a “big agribusiness” approach to African farming.
Seattle-based AGRA Watch was founded following concerns about the Foundation’s influence and lack of transparency in Africa, as well as its close ties with Monsanto and USAID
And I’ll bet you thought that Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett were all just kind hearted philanthropists.
I’m sure they are. I’ve never thought that they were just cynical business people who had figured out a way to test new AIDS drugs and to experiment on humans without all the troublesome drug regulations in other countries. I’m also sure that it’s just an accident that it is all a tax write off too. And I’m quite confident that none of them have any investments and ulterior motives in agribusiness.