Through Gates' promotion of chemical & GM inputs, they've worked to open up previously isolated or hard to reach markets in Africa, South Asia and Latin America for the benefit of private corporations. Does being lifted out of poverty mean being folded into the commodity market? https://twitter.com/BioSRP/status/1328364340878127111

Farmers have bred hundreds of thousands of varieties of thousands of species. Green Rev reduced the agriculture-food base to a handful of globally traded commodities, with only 30 plants supplying 95% of global food demand. GM has further narrowed commercially planted crops to 4

Reduction of marketable crops creates oversupply of commodity crops which keep prices low, making it more difficult for small-scale commodity farmers to make a living. Gates simplistic view of solving poverty with tech innovation ignores why certain populations remain poor.

Gates pushes the philanthropist ethic where the rich give to the poor, painting the rich as providing favors to the poor they exploited to gain their wealth, making the poor ever more dependent on the rich. Reinforces power structures and reiterating the trope of white saviorism

“One Agriculture One Science” means “one research and one knowledge”. In a world of diversity, claiming to be the “One” is a design for Imperialism. It is a denial of the richness of agroecological knowledges and practices that are resurging around the world.