Across Africa, lobbyists, philanthropists and businesspeople are working to open up the continent to GMOs. They argue that GMOs can provide a miracle solution to two of Africa’s biggest problems: famine and malaria.
One of the main supporters of the movement is Bill Gates, one of the world’s wealthiest individuals and founder of the most powerful philanthropic foundation in history. The film shows how the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation became the main funder of genetic experiments underway on the continent.
Discreetly and beyond the reach of critical voices, scientists are conducting research on the genetic modification of cassava plants and mosquitoes as a solution to the malaria problem.
The role of the EU here is an ambiguous one: Whereas the bloc was initially skeptical about genetic engineering because of the potential risks to health and the environment, now the EU is working together with the Microsoft founder’s nonprofit conducting experiments that would be banned in Europe.
Genetic modification in Africa is about power, but it is also about money. And this puts the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in the firing line: by financing genetic engineering experiments in Africa, the organization is playing into the hands of big western agribusiness.
"Africa, GMOs and Western Interests” shines a light on the brave new world of philanthrocapitalism, where humanitarian aid has a stubborn aftertaste of business, famine programs are often a pretext to introduce GMOs and public investments can serve private interests.
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One of the main supporters of the movement is Bill Gates, one of the world’s wealthiest individuals and founder of the most powerful philanthropic foundation in history. The film shows how the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation became the main funder of genetic experiments underway on the continent.
Discreetly and beyond the reach of critical voices, scientists are conducting research on the genetic modification of cassava plants and mosquitoes as a solution to the malaria problem.
The role of the EU here is an ambiguous one: Whereas the bloc was initially skeptical about genetic engineering because of the potential risks to health and the environment, now the EU is working together with the Microsoft founder’s nonprofit conducting experiments that would be banned in Europe.
Genetic modification in Africa is about power, but it is also about money. And this puts the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in the firing line: by financing genetic engineering experiments in Africa, the organization is playing into the hands of big western agribusiness.
"Africa, GMOs and Western Interests” shines a light on the brave new world of philanthrocapitalism, where humanitarian aid has a stubborn aftertaste of business, famine programs are often a pretext to introduce GMOs and public investments can serve private interests.
#documentary #dwdocumentary #GMO
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Francisco Gimeno - BC Analyst Africa: famine. Malaria. This is the image many have of this continent. It doesn't matter malaria is being eradicated and that it was also endemic and eradicated in the Mediterranean area, or it is as bad in South Asia. It doesn't matter that famine is not about food production in this continent, but about logistics, transportation, corruption, political conflicts, lack of inner commerce between African countries. It doesn't matter that "out of Africa" powers prefer to purchase raw agricultural products and raw natural medicinal products to export the manufactured food and medicines back to Africa, so they don't encourage the commerce between African countries or African industrialisation. It doesn't matter that Aid has been used for political and business interests. The narrative is Africa is poor, people die of famine and disease. So, Let them eat the GMO! GMO crops, even after all these years where we know more about them, are a danger to the African continent, famous for its biodiversity, both in food crops, forests, sabana, etc, and also for its insect and animal life. Africa can feed itself if allowed, if infrastructures are properly built, if good governance is supported and rewarded, if the digital revolution happens there, if external politics and business interests are not allowed. It is so clear!