'Small-scale farmers need support but this isn't it' - SAFCEI pleads with Gates Foundation on industrial scale farming

The Southern African Faith Communities' Environment Institute (SAFCEI) sent an open letter to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation earlier this week because the industrial scale approach to food production, which is championed and funded by Gates throughout Africa, is having seriously destructive and unintended consequences. "We write out of grave concern that the Gates Foundation’s support for the expansion of intensive industrial scale agriculture is deepening the humanitarian crisis," the letter reads. Francesca de Gasparis of SAFCEI joins the BizNews Power Hour to shed some light on the NGO's concerns. "Our message is, can you just pause for a minute and have a conversation with us? Can you actually listen to us who are witnessing what's happening on this continent and happening to farmers so that you can actually take stock of the system that's working?" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices