The Lacuna Project

lacuna (n.) a gap in a record where something should be

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Foundation

Gates Foundation

Documented money flows

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • AGR-5.15: The Gates and Rockefeller foundations announced AGRA in September 2006 with a first investment of $150 million, $100 million of it from Gates, for the Program for Africa's Seed Systems. A July 2020 Tufts University working paper, not peer reviewed and supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, reported maize yields up 29 percent over 12 years, staple crop yields up 18 percent and undernourishment up 30 percent in AGRA's 13 countries.
  • AGR-5.18: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust reported 500,000 Monsanto shares in each quarterly Form 13F from June 2010 through September 2011, 0.2 percent of the value of the positions it listed at June 30, 2010.
  • AGR-5.19: The Land Report reported in January 2021 that Bill Gates held 268,984 acres in 19 states, 242,000 of them farmland, which is about 0.027 percent of the 896.6 million acres of U.S. land in farms in 2020.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 639 September 2006. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation: Bill & Melinda Gates, Rockefeller Foundations Form Alliance to Help Spur "Green Revolution" in Africa
  • Exhibit 640 July 2020. Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University (Timothy A. Wise): Failing Africa's Farmers: An Impact Assessment of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (GDAE Working Paper 20-01)
  • Exhibit 643 16 August 2010. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust (SEC filing): Form 13F-HR, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust, quarter ended 30 June 2010
  • Exhibit 645 11 January 2021. The Land Report: Farmer Bill (Eric O'Keefe, The Land Report)