More equal world as Bill Gates becomes the biggest owner of farmland
America’s Biggest Owner Of Farmland Is Now Bill Gates
By Ariel Shapiro | Forbes | January 14, 2021
. . .quietly snatching up 242,000 acres of farmland across the U.S. . . .
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In 2008, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced $306 million in grants to promote high-yield, sustainable agriculture among smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. … invested in … “super crops” resistant to climate change and higher-yield dairy cows. … announced Gates Ag One . . . .
Other billionaires who own more land than Gates are also mentioned.
People might wonder how Gates and his colleagues could manage to pull off the intended mass vaccination of the global population. It probably helps to have grabbed control of much of the food supply.
All of this is very “progressive” as the middle class is brought down and world becomes more “equal” everyday and resources flow into the hands of the super-rich. See also. More generally land grabs going on: here and here.