Philanthrocapitalism: appropriation of Africa's genetic wealth
Although debates about the Gates Foundation's Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) continue with the serious criticisms that it will transform Africa's farming systems into monoculture and that it is trying to link African food production to the global 'food value chain', this paper focuses on more fundamental goals of AGRA: to access and privatise Africa's genetic wealth. Employing the theory of accumulation by dispossession explains <italic>why</italic> AGRA is appropriating African genetic wealth and the theory of philanthrocapitalism explains <italic>how</italic> that appropriation is occurring. This study employs philanthrocapitalism to show that the multiple acts of genetic resource expropriation are neither disparate nor unconnected, but rather, reflect a systemic change of replacing public agricultural sectors with private business practices and control.
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2014
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Authors: | Thompson, Carol B. |
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Review of African Political Economy. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 0305-6244. - Vol. 41.2014, 141, p. 389-405
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Taylor & Francis Journals |
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