African groups want Gates Foundation, USAID to shift agricultural funding as hunger crisis worsens
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The Fertile Soil: Sino-Lao agricultural cooperation is eliminating poverty
Agriculture has long been the pillar industry of Laos’ national economy. In recent years, the Belt and Road Initiative has helped agricultural cooperation between China and Laos become closer, which has improved the standard of living and contributed greatly to agricultural development in Laos.
The Fertile Soil
Farm Protests in India Are Writing the Green Revolution’s Obituary
“Own Nothing and Be Happy”: The Great Reset’s Vision of the Future
“Own Nothing and Be Happy”: The Great Reset’s Vision of the Future
But do not worry – you will be property-less and happy in your open prison of mass unemployment, state dependency, track and chip health passports, cashlessness, mass vaccination and dehumanisation.
Gates Foundation doubles down on misinfo campaign at Cornell as African leaders call for agroecology
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded another $10 million last week to the controversial Cornell Alliance for Science, a communications campaign housed at Cornell that trains fellows in Africa and elsewhere to promote and defend genetically engineered foods, crops and agrichemicals. The new grant brings BMGF grants to the group to $22 million.
Gates Foundation doubles down on misinfo campaign at Cornell as African leaders call for agroecology
Tom Cotton wouldn’t be anywhere without government dollars
[2019] Trump’s trade wars were supposed to rescue US manufacturing and agriculture. But his policies have made them significantly worse.
Farmers have endured severe losses in Trump’s trade wars. Sales of soybean, pork, wheat, and many other agricultural goods to China are drying up, and the country is turning to alternatives like Brazil and Canada to fill the void.
The loss of export markets creates large hurdles for US farmers trying to re-enter them, according to Matt McAlvanah, the spokesperson for Farmers for Free Trade, a pro-trade advocacy group.
McAlvanah previously told Business Insider: “It’s very difficult to regain markets farmers have spent decades cultivating. These relationships are built over time, they’re built on trust — and when they go away overnight, they don’t come back overnight.
— Read on markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/trump-trade-wars-tried-rescuing-manufacturing-agriculture-worse-off-now-2019-12-1028741598
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