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On Independence Day, India’s new rulers are the World Bank, IMF, WTO and Monsanto - The Ecologist
▻http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2987992/on_independence_day_indias_new_rulers_are_the_world_bank_imf_wto_and_m

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India celebrates its Independence Day today, writes Colin Todhunter. But the highly visible system of British colonial dominance has been replaced by a new imperial hegemony: the invisible, systemic rule of transnational capital, enforced by global institutions like the World Bank, while US-based global agribusiness corporations have stepped into the boots of the former East India Company.

#colonialisme #FMI #BM #institutions #agro-industrie

La fondation Gates, fer de lance du pillage néolibéral de l’agriculture africaine (par Colin Todhunter) – Le Partage
▻http://partage-le.com/2016/02/la-fondation-gates-fer-de-lance-du-pillage-neoliberal-de-lagriculture-af

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La Fondation Bill et Melinda Gates (FBMG) est en train de fausser la direction du développement international d’une manière dangereuse et sans avoir de comptes à rendre à personne.

La fondation Gates, dont le monde pense globalement du bien, impose un modèle néolibéral de #développement et de #domination corporatiste qui ouvre l’agriculture africaine à la saisie de "terres et de semences par l’#agrobusiness mondial, écrit Colin Todhunter. Ce faisant, elle évince les véritables solutions : l’amélioration de la sécurité alimentaire, la souveraineté alimentaire et l’agroécologie.

Gates Foundation is spearheading the neoliberal plunder of African agriculture - The Ecologist
▻http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2986941/gates_foundation_is_spearheading_the_neoliberal_plunder_of_african_agr

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The Gates Foundation - widely assumed to be ’doing good’, is imposing a neoliberal model of development and corporate domination that’s opening up Africa’s agriculture to land and seed-grabbing global agribusiness, writes Colin Todhunter. In the process it is foreclosing on the real solutions - enhancing food security, food sovereignty and the move to agroecological farming.
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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.
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The foundation’s senior staff are overwhelmingly drawn from corporate America. As a result, the question is: whose interests are being promoted - those of corporate America or those of ordinary people who seek social and economic justice rather than charity?
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According to the report, the foundation’s strategy is intended to deepen the role of multinational companies in global health and agriculture especially, even though these corporations are responsible for much of the poverty and injustice that already plagues the global south.

#philanthropy #agribusiness #GMOs #gatesfoundation