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> Gates is buying up all the arable farmland, and taking advantage of poor African countries. Can you expand on that? I'm sure there are easier ways for him t
by bennyelv 5y ago
> Gates is buying up all the arable farmland, and taking advantage of poor African countries.
Can you expand on that? I'm sure there are easier ways for him to make money if that's what the purpose is.
- mandmandam 5y agohttps://www.vox.com/recode/22528659/bill-gates-largest-farmland-owner-cascade-investments https://www.vox.com/recode/22528659/bill-gates-largest-farml... (to be fair, 'all of the farmland' is not really appropriate: 300,000 acres out of 900 million. He's still the biggest single owner though). And, https://www.jstor.org/stable/43817537 https://www.jstor.org/stable/43817537, for one perspective on his Africa ventures.