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Gates Foundation to focus on hunger
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| The Financial Times last week ran a story
| titled âBill Gates shifts focus to hungerâ,
| covering a major speech by Gates detailing
| a new emphasis by his foundation on food
| security and agricultural output in
| developing countries.
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| Second, will the Foundation invest in the
| type of engagement and advocacy on trade
| policy issues (exhibit A: subsidies to
| developed world agricultural industry) that
| deeply influence food security, especially
| in sub-Saharan Africa? While the
| development of new technologies and tools
| is critical and has often been the Gates
| Foundationâs sweet-spot, major progress
| will be held back without a serious shift
| in the global economic system around
| agriculture and food. Writer David Rieff
| described Gatesâ challenge in this arena in
| the NYT here.
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http://www.sghequity.org/?p=734
Related:
Dark cloud over good works of Gates Found
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0,6827615.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Gates Foundation Revokes Pledge to Review Portfolio
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| ...the Gates Foundation took down their public statement on this
| and replaced it with a significantly altered version which seems to
| say that investing responsibly would just be too complex for them
| and that they need to focus on their core mission: 'There are
| dozens of factors that could be considered, almost all of which
| are outside the foundation's areas of expertise. The issues
| involved are quite complex...
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/12/1756212&from=rss
Gates Foundationâs Influence Criticized
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| The chief of malaria for the World Health Organization has complained that
| the growing dominance of malaria research by the Bill and Melinda Gates
| Foundation risks stifling a diversity of views among scientists and wiping
| out the world health agencyâs policy-making function.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/science/16malaria.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation- Truth Revealed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttq0IdULfjg
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation- Truth Revealed Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVlnqnMHQ1c
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