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January 11, 2021

Bill Gates’s Foundation Is Leading a Green Counterrevolution in Africa

Jan Urhahn, translation by Loren Balhorn Jacobin

In Africa, there’s a particularly prominent initiative driving corporate agriculture’s agenda — Bill Gates’s Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). AGRA’s results are devastating for small-scale farmers.

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