World Bank dispossessing rural poor

By scoring countries in terms of ease of accessing land for agribusiness, the World Bank's new EBA land indicator seeks to accelerate land privatization and to facilitate corporate access to land in developing countries.
16 Apr 2019 IPS

Indigenous groups warn of 'apocalypse' with Brazil's Bolsonaro

Brazil's Alliance of Indigenous Peoples warned about President Bolsonaro's pledges to allow more farming and logging in the Amazon, and called on the EU to put pressure by refusing import of Brazil's agricultural products unless guaranteed that it's not comes from native lands or violated indigenous people's rights.
10 Apr 2019 France24

Georgia's ban on foreign landowners leaves farmers in limbo

A ban on foreigners owning farmland introduced last year in Georgia's new constitution has made it more difficult for farmers to borrow because the country's mostly foreign-owned banks will no longer accept farmland as collateral.

17 Apr 2019 Reuters

OIO changes could see more advertising of farmland sales

Farmers in New Zealand wanting to sell their land to sell to a foreign buyer might have to advertise their properties more thoroughly than they do now, according to new proposals from the government.

17 Apr 2019 Radio NZ

Agriculture en RDC : un collectif d’associations appelle à soutenir les familles plutôt que les industriels

Les militants congolais ont interpellé la Banque mondiale et la Banque africaine de développement pour que « cesse l’accaparement des terres ».

17 Apr 2019 AFP
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