Spearheading the Neo-liberal Plunder of African Agriculture

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/22/spearheading-the-neo-liberal-plunder-of-african-agriculture/
Date Written:  2016-01-22
Publisher:  CounterPunch
Year Published:  2016
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX18665

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is dangerously and unaccountably distorting the direction of international development, according to a new report by the campaign group Global Justice Now. With assets of $43.5 billion, the BMGF is the largest charitable foundation in the world. It actually distributes more aid for global health than any government. As a result, it has a major influence on issues of global health and agriculture.