Are philanthropists destroying African farms?

This documentary highlights growing calls from African farmers to reclaim food sovereignty and, questions whether philanthropy is helping or hindering sustainable development across the continent.

Philanthropic initiatives by global foundations such as the Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and AGRA, intended to combat hunger in Africa are investigated, as possibly having harmful effects on small-scale farmers who produce the majority of the continent’s food. The video reveals how new seed laws, possibly influenced by these programs, have criminalized traditional practices like saving and exchanging seeds.

It is claimed that these efforts, often aligned with multinational agribusinesses, push farmers toward commercial seeds and chemical inputs, leading to rising debt, loss of biodiversity, and increased food insecurity. While aimed at improving agricultural productivity, the top-down approach, is criticised in this documentary for marginalizing local knowledge systems and placing control of food production in the hands of a few corporations.