<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Jonathan Latham</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jrlatham@bioscienceresource.org">jrlatham@bioscienceresource.org</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 2:52 PM<br>Subject: The Gates Foundation’s Ceres2030 Plan Pushes Agenda of Agribusiness<br>To:  <<a href="mailto:BSR-PROJECT-ELIST1@gn.apc.org">BSR-PROJECT-ELIST1@gn.apc.org</a>><br></div><br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Dear Friends and Colleagues<div><br></div><div><div>Published today (Tue Nov 27th, 2018) by <i>Independent Science News</i> </div><div><br></div><div><b>The Gates Foundation’s Ceres2030 Plan Pushes Agenda of Agribusiness</b></div><div>by <span>Jonathan Latham</span>, PhD</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.independentsciencenews.org/environment/the-gates-foundations-ceres2030-plan-pushes-agenda-of-agribusiness/" target="_blank">https://www.independentsciencenews.org/environment/the-gates-foundations-ceres2030-plan-pushes-agenda-of-agribusiness/</a></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>Synopsis:</i><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> The Gates Foundation helps people in the South by spending money in the North, runs the joke. But is the Gates Foundation also a </span>fauxlanthropy?<span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><span class="m_8736422189254043397Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">      </span>In this article I show how the Gates Foundation recently started Ceres2030, </span>a Cornell University-based project <span style="font-size:10.5pt">to capture the science and drive the policy agenda of agriculture and development. Ceres2030 has purchased a forthcoming special issue of prestigious </span><i style="font-size:10.5pt">Nature</i><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> magazine that it will populate with articles and authors of its own choosing. These articles will in turn be used for future media and policy work. The evidence so far is that the goal </span>of Ceres2030<span style="font-size:10.5pt"> is not sustainability but to spearhead chemical-intensive and GMO agriculture in developing countries. </span></div><div><div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" color="#333333"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" color="#333333"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Please share if you find this article valuable.</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" color="#333333"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" color="#333333"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Best wishes,</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" color="#333333"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Jonathan</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" color="#333333"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></font></div></div><div>
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