Gates to a Global Empire

Dr. Vandana Shiva is an author, physicist, ecologist and advocate of biodiversity conservation and protection of farmers' and women's rights. Her pioneering work around food sovereignty, traditional agriculture, and women’s rights created fundamental cultural shifts in how the world views these issues. Along with Jerry Mander, Edward Goldsmith, Ralph Nader, and Jeremy Rifkin, Dr. Shiva is a leader and board member of the International Forum on Globalization and a prominent figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement. Dr. Shiva founded Navdanya, an organization that promotes agroecology, seed freedom, and a vision of Earth Democracy, seeking justice for the Earth and all living beings. She has authored more than 20 books including Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth (Synergetic Press, 2020), Philanthrocapitalism & The Erosion of Democracy: A Global Citizens’ Report on the Corporate Control of Technology, Health, and Agriculture (Synergetic Press, 2022) and Agroecology and Regenerative Agriculture:  Sustainable Solutions for Hunger, Poverty, and Climate Change (Synergetic Press, 2022). Dr. Shiva is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundacion IDEAS, Spain's Socialist Party's think tank and the International Organization for a Participatory Society. She received the Right Livelihood Award in 1993, an honor known as an "Alternative Nobel Prize". She has received numerous other awards and honors for her work including the “Save the World” award in 2009 and the Sydney Peace Prize in 2010. Dr. Shiva’s life and work is the subject of the award-winning 2021 documentary, “Seeds of Vandana Shiva.”Navdanya International promotes a new agricultural and economic paradigm, a culture of food for health, where ecological responsibility and economic justice replace the present greed, consumerism and competition which have become dominant in society. It aims at regaining the common good as a foundation for a renewed sense of community, solidarity and culture of peace. Co-Executive Director and Researcher, focusing on emerging technologies on human rights, biodiversity, equity, and food systems, ETC Group. Molecular Biologist and former Genetic Engineer. Currently Editor of Independent Science News website. Satish Kumar is an Indian British activist and speaker. He has been a Jain monk, nuclear disarmament advocate and pacifist. Hs is the founder of Schumacher College, England, UK. Timothy A. Wise is a senior researcher at the Small Planet Institute, collaborating with director Frances Moore Lappé to start its new Land and Food Rights Program. He is also a senior research fellow at Tufts University's Global Development and Environment Institute. He is a Senior Advisor at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)

• Table of ContentsForeword ixIntroduction:Philanthrocapitalism and Colonization in the Digital Age xvVandana ShivaSECTION I: A GLOBAL EMPIREDisrupting a World of Traditional Knowledge,Sovereignty, and Biodiversity 3Vandana ShivaAn Overview of Bill & Melinda GatesAgricultural Innovations 17NavdanyaThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and theInternational Rice Research Institute Alliance 27Chito P. MedinaSECTION II: PATENTS, GENE EDITING,AND DIGITAL SEQUENCE INFORMATIONSeed Ownership Through New Gene Editing Technologies 43Vandana Shivavi Table of ContentsGene Editing: Unexpected Outcomes and Risks 47Dr. Michael AntoniouMegadiverse Countries as Providers of GeneticResources & Digital Sequence Information 51Aid  Jim nez-Mart nez and Adelita San Vicente TelloSECTION III: BIOPIRACYBiopiracy of Climate Resilient Seeds 61NavdanyaBiopiracy Case Studies: GMO Bananas 67Vandana Shiva & Navdanya InternationalSECTION IV: GLOBAL AGRICULTUREThe Recolonization of Agriculture 79NavdanyaA Treaty to Protect Our Agricultural Biodiversity 93Jos  Esquinas-AlcazarAg Tech: Bill & Melinda Gates AgriculturalInnovations in Argentina 101Fernando CabaleiroSECTION V: THE THIRD “GREEN REVOLUTION”The Golden Rice Hoax 109Vandana ShivaWhy We Oppose Golden Rice 115Stop Golden Rice Network (SGRN)Table of Contents viiThe Dystopia of the Green Revolution in Africa 121Nicoletta DenticoThe Gates Foundation’s Green Revolution FailsAfrica’s Farmers 129Timothy WiseSeeds of Surveillance Capitalism 137NavdanyaSECTION VI: BIOTECHNOLOGY &GEOENGINEERINGThe Problems with Lab Made Food 143Vandana ShivaSoftware To Swallow: The Intellectual PropertyModel of Food 149Seth ItzkanBill Gates’ Climate “Solutions”:Funding for Geoengineering 151Dru Jay And Silvia Ribeiro (ETC Group)SECTION VII: GENE DRIVES & THE SIXTHMASS EXTINCTIONDriven to Exterminate: How Bill Gates BroughtGene Drive Extinction Technology into The World 163Zahra Moloo And Jim Thomas (ETC Group)Gates Foundation Hired a Public Relations Firmto Manipulate the UN Over Gene Drives 175Jonathan LathamTargeting Palmer Amaranth: A Traditionally Nutritious andCulturally Significant Crop 179Vandana ShivaGlobal Resistance to Genetic Extinction Technology 183NavdanyaSECTION VIII: MEDIA, HEALTH, AND EDUCATIONDigital Dictators 191Satish KumarThe Philanthropic Monopoly of Bill & Melinda Gates 199Nicoletta DenticoHow the Cornell Alliance Spreads Disinformationand Discredits Agroecology 215Community Alliance for Global Justice and Agra WatchBt Brinjal: Alliance for Crooked Science & Corporate Lies 219Farida AkhterSECTION X: AN EARTH-BASED PHILOSOPHYA Message from Gaia 233NavdanyaContributors 237Endnotes 239Index 273