Dr. Million Belay and Bridget Mugambe co-wrote an op-ed on Scientific American pleading Gates to let the continent's food producers and consumers chart their paths toward sustainable and healthy farming practices and diets. They reiterate, "We welcome investment in agriculture on our continent, but we seek it in a form that is democratic and responsive to the people at the heart of agriculture, not as a top-down force that ends up concentrating power and profit into the hands of a small number of multinational companies."