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1 GRAIN, “How does the Gates Foundation spend its money to feed the world?”, Nov 2014. https://grain.
org/e/5064
2 See: Luke Savage “Bill Gates Chooses Corporate Patent Rights Over Human Lives” In Jacobin, 2021.
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/04/bill-gates-vaccines-intellectual-property-covid-patents, and: Tim Schwab,
“The Fall of the House of Gates?”, in The Nation, May 2021, https://www.thenation.com/article/society/
gates-me-too-divorce/
3 Timothy A. Wise, “Failing Africa’s Farmers: An Impact Assessment of the Alliance for a Green Revolu-
tion in Africa”, Tufts University, July 2020. https://sites.tufts.edu/gdae/files/2020/07/20-01_Wise_Failure-
ToYield.pdf
4 See: https://www.acbio.org.za/publications?search_api_fulltext=Gates&sort_by=field_publication_date
5 See: https://usrtk.org/category/bill-gates-food-tracker/
6 The original Gates database is available from their website: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/
committed-grants The GRAIN database which includes a grouping of different types of grantees can be
downloaded from https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-ItZGNKANeY00Rv-LRxotRVjStoSXyor/view?us-
p=sharing and
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xjg8JYU_TTa2q5VvY9Aob0o_SUOcecE6/view?usp=sharing
7 See also: GRAIN, “Barbarians at the barn: private equity sinks its teeth into agriculture”, 2020, https://
grain.org/e/6533
8 For a more in-depth look at each category, visit GRAIN’s Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/
grain_org/
9 See: https://www.oxfam.org/en/what-we-do/about/our-finances-and-accountability
10 Timothy A. Wise, “Failing Africa’s Farmers: An Impact Assessment of the Alliance for a Green Revolu-
tion in Africa” Tufts University, July 2020. https://sites.tufts.edu/gdae/files/2020/07/20-01_Wise_Failure-
ToYield.pdf
11 See: “Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Statement on Creation of Nonprofit Agricultural Research
Institute”, Seattle, January 21, 2020. https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-center/press-releas-
es/2020/01/gates-foundation-statement-on-creation-of-nonprofit-agricultural-research-institute
12 See: https://www.afdb.org/en/events/high-level-virtual-dialogue-feeding-africa-leadership-scale-success-
ful-innovations
13 See: https://agrf.org/dealroom/
14 See: “The unholy alliance”, Oakland institute, 2016. https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/sites/oaklandinsti-
tute.org/files/unholy_alliance_web.pdf
15 GRAIN, “Biofortified crops or biodiversity? The fight for genuine solutions to malnutrition is on,” 4 June
2019: https://grain.org/e/6246
16 See: https://www.state.gov/leaders-summit-on-climate/
17 See: https://www.geekwire.com/2021/bill-gates-shares-3-steps-clean-energy-economy-message-leaders-
summit-climate/

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