This article questions the recent $10 million-grant awarded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the controversial Cornell Alliance for Science, a communications campaign housed at Cornell that trains fellows in Africa and elsewhere to promote and defend genetically engineered foods, crops and agrichemicals. A webinar held on the 1st october has continued to fuel the controversy on the Foundation’s vision of agricultural development. The article mentions reports and studies documenting the failure of AGRA strategies.
Read the article : here
Read the report False Promises on AGRA : here