African presidents will be in Nairobi this weak to attend a conference by AGRA (Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa)

Since stepping down as UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan has acted as chair to the Africa Progress Panel created by Tony Blair, whose impact has been negligible. He has also served as chair of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), which has always denied being a lobby for big agribusiness interests and GM crops, despite being funded by the Gates Foundation.

Bill gates:
Consider his huge buyout of Monsanto stock – he owns millions of shares of Monsanto and Cargill stock, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation keep scooping it up. He owns more than $23 million worth, or 500,000 Monsanto shares.May 18, 2014 http://naturalsociety.com/big-owner-monsanto-shares-bill-gates-depopulation-agenda-exposed/

AGRA, founded by the Gates and Rockefeller Foundations in 2006, claims that it is spurring a “uniquely African Green Revolution”, but there’s little original thinking here. Instead, it seems to be more of the same agenda that locks farmers into a spiral of corporate control, making them dependent on seeds and fertilisers from transnational corporations which dictate price and product delivery times.

...."This report clearly indicates their full support for GM crops, and their intention to use their influence to open African doors for Monsanto's and Syngenta's patented GM crops," said Teresa Anderson, international advocacy co-ordinator for the Gaia foundation, an advocate of food sovereignty that asserts the right of people to define their own food systems...

http://www.gmwatch.org/news/archive/2013/15043-agra-reveals-its-support-for-gm-crops-in-africa

This is old news, so what are we going to do about it?

Bitterleafsoup:
This is old news, so what are we going to do about it?

Your respective Agricultural/govt ministers are in Nairobi as we speak. They are doing it already

Muafrika2:

Your respective Agricultural/govt ministers are in Nairobi as we speak. They are doing it already

I warned my people in Anambra State about that Bill Gates birth control womens clinics. He donated 1 million.

Bitterleafsoup:

I warned my people in Anambra State about that Bill Gates birth control womens clinics. He donated 1 million.

Birth control is a war few can escape. If you do not take it directly they put it in vaccines. Even disease outbreaks food. You'd rather get it directly from the clinic for your own good

So this are the commitments made...(people with NGOs or CBOs that promote Agriculture should take advantage of this...

Specific commitments came from each of the following champions of African agriculture:

1 - USAID launched a global report entitled “A Food-Secure 2030”. The US government has invested more than $6.6 billion in global food security and nutrition efforts through its Feed the Future initiative, and “the Global Food Security Act signals the US government’s enduring commitment to global food security and nutrition and is the largest development authorization the US Congress has made in a decade.”


2. US $24 billion from the African Development Bank (AfDB) over the next ten years, a 400 percent increase over previous commitments, to help drive agricultural transformation in Africa. Remarks from AfDB President Akin Adesina noted that a “key pillar” of the AfDB work will be support for the Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation or TAAT program, which is scaling up various agriculture technologies for millions of farmers. Adesina said AfDB support will also accelerate access to commercial financing, buttressed by proven approaches to reducing risks of commercial lending to smallholder farmers and other agriculture businesses. “Now is the time to come to the aid of our long-suffering farmers and give them the modern agriculture technologies they need to ensure a good return for their labor and hard work,” Adesina said.

3. Support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to contribute at least US $5 billion to African development over the next five years. It is expected that will include at least US $1 billion for agriculture, based on expenditures in recent years. The agriculture investments will continue the Gates Foundation’s work to expand crop and livestock research, strengthen data for decision-making, and improve systems to deliver better tools, information and innovations to farmers. In addition, both the Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation today promised to renew their support for AGRA as it embarks on an ambitious series of partnerships to support agriculture-led economic transformation across entire countries. The Gates Foundation also promised to match “dollar for dollar” other development partner support for AGRA programs. Speaking to the conference via a pre-recorded video, Bill Gates praised AGRA, which sponsors and organizes the AGRF, for work over the last ten years that has reached some 15 million farmers.Reflecting on AGRA’s ten year anniversary, Gates said, “We’re excited about what AGRA has achieved. We are committed to them and feel like it is a huge part of this whole vision.”

4. US $180 million in additional commitments from The Rockefeller Foundation. The contribution includes US $50 million beyond the US $105 million already invested in AGRA and its partners over the last ten years. In addition, the Foundation is providing US $130 million for its Yieldwise initiative, work directed by AGRA and other partners that is deploying better storage, handling and processing capabilities to reduce the significant post-harvest losses on African farms due spoilage or pests.“Food loss and waste across the value chain threatens farmers’ livelihoods and costs the global economy more than the combined 2015 profits of the Fortune 500,” said Judith Rodin, President of the Rockefeller Foundation. “In sub-Saharan Africa, 40 to 50 percent of certain staple crops are lost post-harvest.”

More on https://agrf.org/articles/more-than-us-30-billion-in-commitment-to-african-agriculture/