THE same Gates Foundation which is behind every aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic from financing much of the WHO budget, to investing in favoured vaccine-makers like Moderna, is engaged in a major project in Africa which is destroying traditional small farmer production of essential food crops in favour of monoculture crops and introduction of expensive chemical fertilizers and GMO seeds that are bankrupting small farmers. T

he project, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, known as AGRA, is directly connected with key global institutions behind the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset.

If we know the actual history of the Rockefeller Foundation and related tax-free undertakings of one of the world’s most influential families, it is clear that in key areas the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has inherited the Rockefeller agenda from the medical industrial complex to education to agriculture transformation.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, working in tandem with the closely allied Rockefeller Foundation, is not only at the centre of the orchestration of unheard-of severe economic lockdown measures for the much-disputed COVID-19 illness.

The Gates foundation is also at the very centre of the UN Agenda 30 push to transform world agriculture into what they call ‘sustainable’ agriculture. A keystone project for the past 14 years has been Gates’ funding of something called the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa or AGRA.

AGRA fraud on Africa
WHEN the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation founded AGRA in 2006, joined by their close ally, the Rockefeller Foundation, they proclaimed their goal was to ‘tackle hunger in Africa by working to achieve a food secure and prosperous Africa through the promotion of rapid, sustainable agricultural growth based on smallholder farmers.’

AGRA promised to double the agricultural yields and incomes of 30 million small-scale food producer households by 2020. It is now 2020 and it has been a total failure in this regard. Notably, AGRA deleted these goals in June 2020 from its website without explanation. Based on what they have done we can assume that was never the true goal of Gates and Rockefeller foundations.

In a 2009 speech in Iowa promoting his New Green Revolution for Africa, Bill Gates declared, ‘The next Green Revolution must be guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and the environment.’

The Gates Foundation proclaimed that the AGRA ‘is an Africa-based and African-led effort to develop a thriving agricultural sector in sub-Saharan Africa.’ Sounds very nice. Reality is quite different.

To further that ‘African-led’ impression, Gates hired the former UN secretary general, Ghana’s Kofi Annan. Annan had just retired amid an Iraq oil-for-food corruption scandal at the UN involving his son.

Annan was to be the front face, the chairman of AGRA. In reality the Gates Foundation ran things, with their guy, Rajiv ‘Raj’ Shah, directing implementation of policies in African target countries.

When initial attempts to push Monsanto GMO seeds and pesticides on GMO-free African farmers met with great resistance, they shifted instead to sell conventional but Monsanto-owned seeds along with costly chemical fertilisers and pesticides.

Suspiciously, the Gates Foundation and AGRA have been anything but open and transparent about what they have accomplished in 14 years. For good reason.

The model they have pushed in 13 African countries  has significantly worsened the food self-sufficiency of small farmers and instead created debt traps in which small producers are forced to take on heavy debt to buy expensive patented seeds,

are forbidden to use own seeds or mixed crops, and forced to produce cash crops in a monoculture for export. AGRA has received more than $1 billion dollars from mainly the Gates Foundation, with USAID and the UK and German governments adding smaller sums.

False promises
IN A new detailed report evaluating results country-by-country, the reality of the Gates Africa agriculture project shows alarming, but not surprising, results.

The report is called False Promises: The Green Revolution in Africa. It was prepared by a group of African and European NGOs in collaboration with Timothy A Wise, senior advisor at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy of Tufts University.

The report concluded, ‘yield increases for key staple crops in the years before AGRA were just as low as during AGRA. Instead of halving hunger, the situation in the 13 focus countries has worsened since AGRA was launched.

The number of people going hungry has increased by 30 per cent during the AGRA years… affecting 130 million people in the 13 AGRA focus countries.’ That is no minor failure.