South AfricaMail & Guardian1 d ago

Gates Foundation faces reckoning over AGRA

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation must be held accountable for agricultural interventions that have failed to deliver on promises to reduce hunger and build resilient food systems in Africa, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food has said. In a message supporting African faith leaders’ demand for reparations, Sofía Monsalve Suárez said climate extremes and geopolitical instability had exposed the fragility of food systems weakened by dependence on imports, industrial monocultures and fossil fuel-based agricultural inputs.

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