Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Introduction:

Philanthrocapitalism and Colonization in the Digital Age xv

Vandana Shiva

SECTION I: A GLOBAL EMPIRE

Disrupting a World of Traditional Knowledge,

Sovereignty, and Biodiversity 3

Vandana Shiva

An Overview of Bill & Melinda Gates

Agricultural Innovations 17

Navdanya

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the

International Rice Research Institute Alliance 27

Chito P. Medina

SECTION II: PATENTS, GENE EDITING,

AND DIGITAL SEQUENCE INFORMATION

Seed Ownership Through New Gene Editing Technologies 43

Vandana Shiva

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Gene Editing: Unexpected Outcomes and Risks 47

Dr. Michael Antoniou

Megadiverse Countries as Providers of Genetic

Resources & Digital Sequence Information 51

Aid  Jim nez-Mart nez and Adelita San Vicente Tello

SECTION III: BIOPIRACY

Biopiracy of Climate Resilient Seeds 61

Navdanya

Biopiracy Case Studies: GMO Bananas 67

Vandana Shiva & Navdanya International

SECTION IV: GLOBAL AGRICULTURE

The Recolonization of Agriculture 79

Navdanya

A Treaty to Protect Our Agricultural Biodiversity 93

Jos  Esquinas-Alcazar

Ag Tech: Bill & Melinda Gates Agricultural

Innovations in Argentina 101

Fernando Cabaleiro

SECTION V: THE THIRD “GREEN REVOLUTION”

The Golden Rice Hoax 109

Vandana Shiva

Why We Oppose Golden Rice 115

Stop Golden Rice Network (SGRN)

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The Dystopia of the Green Revolution in Africa 121

Nicoletta Dentico

The Gates Foundation’s Green Revolution Fails

Africa’s Farmers 129

Timothy Wise

Seeds of Surveillance Capitalism 137

Navdanya

SECTION VI: BIOTECHNOLOGY &

GEOENGINEERING

The Problems with Lab Made Food 143

Vandana Shiva

Software To Swallow: The Intellectual Property

Model of Food 149

Seth Itzkan

Bill Gates’ Climate “Solutions”:

Funding for Geoengineering 151

Dru Jay And Silvia Ribeiro (ETC Group)

SECTION VII: GENE DRIVES & THE SIXTH

MASS EXTINCTION

Driven to Exterminate: How Bill Gates Brought

Gene Drive Extinction Technology into The World 163

Zahra Moloo And Jim Thomas (ETC Group)

Gates Foundation Hired a Public Relations Firm

to Manipulate the UN Over Gene Drives 175

Jonathan Latham

Targeting Palmer Amaranth: A Traditionally Nutritious and

Culturally Significant Crop 179

Vandana Shiva

Global Resistance to Genetic Extinction Technology 183

Navdanya

SECTION VIII: MEDIA, HEALTH, AND EDUCATION

Digital Dictators 191

Satish Kumar

The Philanthropic Monopoly of Bill & Melinda Gates 199

Nicoletta Dentico

How the Cornell Alliance Spreads Disinformation

and Discredits Agroecology 215

Community Alliance for Global Justice and Agra Watch

Bt Brinjal: Alliance for Crooked Science & Corporate Lies 219

Farida Akhter

SECTION X: AN EARTH-BASED PHILOSOPHY

A Message from Gaia 233

Navdanya

Contributors 237

Endnotes 239

Index 273