Gates attacks ‘outdated’ UN food agencies
FINANCIAL TIMES: Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder turned philanthropist, has broken a taboo in the development community by publicly accusing UN agencies of allowing infighting and inefficiency to undermine the battle against hunger…
Mr Gates, who has donated roughly $2bn to food security in the past decade and plans to give another $2bn in the next five years, told an audience of the three agencies in Rome that the current system was “outdated and inefficient”…
Mr Gates also blamed western nations for some of the failures of the UN agencies that specialise in agriculture and food security, saying many donors have forced recipients to “change priorities to suit political realities in their home countries”… (more)
