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How the f..k Bill Gates knew that we will have a food crisis ? ( Did he build a time machine or what ? )

https://www.vox.com/recode/22528659/bill-gates-largest-farmland-owner-cascade-investments (https://www.vox.com/recode/22528659/bill-gates-largest-farmland-owner-cascade-investments)

Between him predicting that we might have a pandemic a few years back and now this. Very strange how he is always correct in most situations.

However you need to understand he invests his money everywhere. So maybe it’s just a coincidence why this happened. No idea if he knew there would be a food shortage a few years back.

He knew about the pandemic because he said that the research funds were low and we were at risk of a pandemic which actually happened.

I wouldn't get too conspiratorial on this one. When you have little capital you can't buy land. Maybe you have $1K in the bank. Then if you save more you might buy mutual funds or put it in retirement funds etc. But when you have so much capital, it is normal on the one hand to diversify as adaseb has said and on the other hand you start thinking about buying raw materials and means of production. In other words, you go from being able to buy the shares of an oil company with $1K to buying the oil company to extract the oil yourself, or as would be the case of buying $1K of companies that produce food to buying land to produce the food yourself.

If I'm going to guess, it's either or a combination of:

1. him being smarter than your typical dude
2. he can afford to hire a crap ton of smart market analysts and such
3. stocks have been pretty frothy for a while now, and he might've chosen farmlands because maybe he saw farmland as something not as overpriced; maybe not necessarily that he predicted a food shortage

Perhaps he also bought farmland at the worst time to buy it. If yields are going down due to fertiliser shortages and other things then it might not be as good an investment as he'd hoped it would be when it was acquired.

Re predicting the pandemic, there's one every 10-20 years (since cheap air flights) and I think his "prediction" was based off the ebola pandemic.

I still remember Soros' interview from 15-20 years ago when he said he is investing in land and food! There was the story of how food has grown by 500% in the last few years, and he predicted it would go even higher!


The big players predicted this would happen (at least some of them)! I don't know if we can trust politicians and various experts, most of their predictions sound like a great catastrophe awaits us! It seems that hard days are waiting for us, it will not get better until we hit rock bottom, and that rock bottom doesn't seem close to me!

He is Bill gates for a reason. Also he gets the first taste of many amazing technologies built by Microsoft which we haven't yet heard off. So it's not surprising that he has a super computer at his disposal. So with his kind of intellect coupled with a super computer, can do wonders.

If you really want to know the power of business prediction and analytics, watch the case study of Asian Paints who has been a market leader since 70's in the paints industry despite steep competition with the help of data analysis. It is widely available in youtibe.

Yeah, totally a time machine!
But it malfunctioned and he turned back in time a bit too much
https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2012/01/24/bill-gates-next-target-revolutionize-farming/?sh=ea54ced68deb
https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2014/10/29/bill-gates-buys-more-southeast-farmland.html

Everyone knew about Bill Gates's plans for farming for a decade, I don't understand why anyone is surprised by this anymore.

He has an investment group that will do that job for him and if they decide agriculture products is important for making money, its what they would do.

Looking back in the past there were famine too which is history repeats itself, then predicting what could happen is already there without having to predict it. But maybe in that part only of the world where there is winter. But in the equator part like in the South American countries, Asians or Pacific islands they may not experience the scarcity of food due to their resources and access to the sea.

Because the three horsemen of the Apocalypse come together one after another - Plague, War and Famine.

We have food crisis all the time. The fact that you see store shelves bending with food does not mean there are no people who are starving. If you were working in food industry, you would knew that are products that we have in abundance, and there a group of products which makes harder and harder to produce.

Ever heard of a climate changes and a story about a farmer who had no harvest due to lack of rains? Ever tried buying winter jacket and boots for the next year in Spring when there are huge discounts? Bill Gates does the same, just with greater recourses and opportunities.

I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories or judgments about the future, but the issues that happened are pretty much what will lead us on that journey. We've seen epidemics, wars, fuel crises, and food crises in the years to come... and all of this seems to have been meticulously planned and followed. consequences in society. Although I can also feel some of these bad things happening, I always wonder why we can't get out of that spiral, especially most of the people living on this earth, and whether the few are dominating everything in our present life. Is there a way for people to be aware of this? But the compulsion in their life, right from birth, we have learned all kinds of knowledge, but I don't understand how it helps in life. Is it the challenge in everyone's life? I think that right now is the time for us to be more serious about the problems in our current society and to take more practical measures to improve this life for the better. Hopefully, what will happen in the future will not be so bad that it will lead to bigger crises, especially since I feel that the issue of large-scale armed conflict will also happen soon and soon, such as involving leading powers, and is this a way to restore order on earth?

Sounds like a conspiracy right? he with his words seemed to know that in the future the economic conditions would be similar to what he said. I'm probably having a hard time digesting how bad the economic risk is with the predictions he often anticipates. His finances are everywhere and knowing the economic progress of each country makes him able to speak out loud. Or was it designed with a very mature plan? I don't know I don't think that a group of people control the world's economy, but the fact is that it always is.

No big deal. Anyone with a half functioning brain could see that coming. If I told you this was going to happen 5 years ago, you would label me a conspiracy theorist. Here we are now, the world's richest or one of the richest is acting like he lost his mind, buying farmland.

8 billion people is living on earth and the number increasing exponentially, this can't end well.

Well, at least Billy and his family will feel safe and cared for in the time to come, because in addition to all the land he bought, he has a house with 18 bathrooms where he now lives alone, as he recently complained to the world. Despite all the wealth and investment, man has a problem that we ordinary mortals do not have - in which of the 18 bathrooms to meet his hygienic needs ::)

I don’t know why people are so fascinated by people like him, does only wealth make a man?

the number of people on the planet isn't increasing exponentially  looks like it will peak at about 9 billion and then drop like a rock as countries become richer.   Lack of population is already a problem in first world countries.  that's one of the reasons for the immigration policies.  to replace the lack of birthrate. 

You do not need to be Bill Gates to know that we are going to have a food crisis, if you look at the last 100 years statistics.  ::) There are almost a 1.5% increase in the Global population every year..... so you can see where I am going with this. The world has 7.9 Billion people now....(2022)

"At the dawn of agriculture, about 8000 B.C., the population of the world was approximately 5 million. Over the 8,000-year period up to 1 A.D. it grew to 200 million (some estimate 300 million or even 600, suggesting how imprecise population estimates of early historical periods can be), with a growth rate of under 0.05% per year."

"A tremendous change occurred with the industrial revolution: whereas it had taken all of human history until around 1800 for world population to reach one billion, the second billion was achieved in only 130 years (1930), the third billion in 30 years (1960), the fourth billion in 15 years (1974), and the fifth billion in only 13 years (1987)."

Source : https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/#pastfuture

So..... the question is.. has the agriculture and food production grown with the explosion in the global population? The short answer is NO, because global warming has caused an increased in extreme weather conditions that destroys agriculture and also over fishing has caused a massive decline in oceans stocks.  >:( >:( >:(

You are right here. You don't need to be Bill Gates to predict the future.
Because the numbers in our history are already clear and you just need to follow where it is going.
Climate change has been the topic for years or decades already. And most of us are not doing anything to possibly address its impact to our environment.
He is just acting to what he can do to sustain himself with the impending global hunger problem. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to understand this situation.

If you read any news well, you can draw several scenarios for what happens in the future, and if you have enough money, you can quickly double that money by publishing it after investments.

Bill Guest is an exceptional man. He is smart, has money, can employ smart people, and can learn information from governments or third parties that most people cannot access, and he has several intersecting investments, so it is not likely that he knows of an upcoming food crisis despite The average analyst can predict it.

These people have very smart minds - they know where to invest and how much to invest.
That is one of the reasons they are influencers and trend setters. Their goals and mottos are different from the ordinary people.

This is why he kept getting included in conspiracy theories LOL. But indeed land, especially farm land, is a good investment. Even Zucc himself was trying to get his hands on some land in Hawaii for example.

These two in particular are tech moguls and they likely got interested in idea of owning something tangible that would still be productive. I mean, I would too, their products are bits and bytes, you can't eat those.

He did not have to "know" anything special, although he certain has invested a lot of money in sensible research in various different areas. It is hard to get an understanding of how billionaires operate, because they truly exist on a different plain. Those with fortunes in fairly solid companies like Microsoft have vast fortunes, they will sell out of one company and diversify their money widely in many other companies. All of those companies will be paying out profits (or reinvesting them for growth), which means that their money grows more money. That allows them to spend money without even making a dent in the overall wealth under control, they diversify in other assets like land because it is a finite resource - they're simply not making more of it with few exceptions.

Maybe that rock bottom is only a decade away.

Massive kill off of humanity due to disease, global warming and starvation by 2030 sounds fairly possible to me.

If it is the case we should be being guns bullets and cans of food. Not crypto.

Bill Gates purchase of farmland is only one side of his agriculture business dealings.

He also invested heavily in developing artificial meat and dairy products.


If traditional farming wins Bill Gates owns farmland.

If synthetic farming succeeds in producing artificial foods, Bill Gates has that covered as well.

Either of the above options is a hedge against the other in something resembling an arbitrage strategy.

Bill Gates is also involved with vaccines and geoengineering to reverse climate change.

It has been suggested that Bill Gates true goal is to win a nobel prize in science for his efforts. Some have said he pays very close attention to the nomination and award process.

It is really just he had made out those analysis considering that there are certain key areas on where organization or government doesnt really put up some importance or emphasis which as time goes by or years

passing where viruses do mutate and researches are lagging behind then you could really anticipate for the possibility and same goes with agricultural lands where infrastructure becomes more bigger

where its understandable that spaces of lands would be used where time comes where food productivity will really be that not sufficient.So problem would really be in next in terms of scarcity.

I don't know if what's wrong of buying a farm land? It was still a kind of investment. Do people think that bill gates are the one that will plant crops on it? Or do they think that the era now is too high tech for this? Buying a farm land doesn't mean that you will plant crops on it but he can just resell it at a much higher price. The number of people living in the world cant remain like that.

I know there are new people that are being born but let's not forget that there are also people that die. Not only 5 years ago but long time ago, the issue on food or food crisis as we call it is already a thing. It is normal and part of the issues on our economy.

Bill gates is considered to be one of the wealthiest people in the world. He has many resources even before which is why it's much easier for him to know whether doing something will be beneficial in the future or not. Given the capacity he had before up until today, it would be a bare minimum for him to conduct a research for every valuable thing he is eyeing. After all, he has the assets and manpower to do it for him. Hence, he could have predicted it smoothly with the help of those people around him.

Or perhaps he is just really a smart guy. Maybe he is really one of those geniuses and practical people who want to diversify his funds not only through technology but also in lands so that when things go worse, just like what is happening right now, he has always a fallback. Given the global warming and climate change, maybe it really occurred to him that there would be a gradual change regarding commodities.

Agriculture is the only network that isn't much influenced by the corporate networks. Another thing, the world crisis were on a cycle and based on that there is a chance of food crisis. Bill Gates have prepared himself earlier. Not only Bill Gates, more other persons have begun to get into agriculture realising the primary need of human beings. In my country people getting into agriculture have diminished, so the elder ones used to say oneday there happens a situation you have money, but there won't be food. So prepare yourself to cultivate atleast to fulfill sell needs.

i believe that he has access to a mysterious circle... where they have the power to control how the world goes behind the scenes.. who knows.. because before the pandemic he had started investing in pharmaceuticals and their derivatives and many other things. and there's no way this is a coincidence

I think you are over reacting on this. With IQ level of Bill gates he can easily foresight this as he was already playing a big corporation game in his time.
I saw an interviews in which Bill and Malinda said that when they go Africa first time for honeymoon, They saw life differently and from there they changed there way of thinking and start doing humanitarian acts to help food crisis and more. Also the demographic chart of world population already predict how dens the population of world could be back in time so he grasp the idea of food shortage already.

That is correct. These investors have great minds and they are looking toward every aspects of investment.
These influencers are the role model for the general public - we all look towards them for the ideas and motivation.

There are things which they are really good at on where they do make out presumptions on what are the things might possibly happen ahead basing on the recent or current situations that they are seeing.

Once they do applied that kind of analysis then they would really be making risky decisions since we know that investment do talks about money so they would really be making or doing such step

on what they've been seeing but of course they are taking some risk too but it turns out their analysis was right.

Like oil and gas is very important so is food.
Investing on farms and agriculture is a very good decision because it is never ending demand. The one who makes their mind towards it. Are always in good profits and mood.

I'll give you a hint - the terrorist war against Ukraine was unleashed by Russia back in 2008. It's no secret that Ukraine is the largest grain exporter. Until 2020, the conflict was not frozen, but the terrorists did not seize new Ukrainian lands. In 2021, I think information about a possible new phase of terrorist strikes and a large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine was not a secret for some people. The same China, since 2020, has actively begun buying up grain around the world - is it also an accident? Even the fact that China is stocking up on grain suggests that either China itself is preparing for a huge crop failure, or it has information on the basis of which it is taking preemptive steps. Therefore, B. Gates coincided with 2 events - information and understanding of a new crisis scenario in the agricultural market, and free funds. Tell me - what would you do in such a situation? I think with at least 50% probability - the same thing :)