New research accuses the World Bank Group's policies of facilitating land grabs in Africa and favouring the interests of financial markets over food security and environmental protection.
- Bretton Woods Project
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14 September 2011
A short article on the land grab phenomenon: What are the drivers? Who is doing the grabbing? What are the main issues? What implications for the future ?
- Future Agricultures
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22 June 2011
Videos from the International Conference on Global Land Grabbing, Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, 6 - 8 April 2011
The Land Portal, an online platform to find, share, and collaborate on land information, was launched today at the annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty.
ILC leads development of 30 studies on large-scale international and domestic land acquisitions and the factors that are driving demand for investments in land.
As wealthy investors continue to buy up agricultural land in the developing world, stakeholders disagree over how to regulate such transactions.
Official documents from the 36th session of the FAO Committee on World Food Security (Rome 11-16 October 2010) concerning their discussion of landgrabbing
Présentation de Michael Taylor (ILC) et André Tioro (ROPPA) au Briefing régional sur le développement rural en Afrique Centrale organisé par le CTA
ILC is actually trying to promote some sort of dialogue between the different proposals for principles for responsible farmland investment
Le Secrétariat du Club du Sahel et de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (CSAO/OCDE) s’est engagé dans l’animation d’un dialogue autour des pressions sur les terres ouest-africaines.
La Suisse se veut le moteur d’un mouvement international qui revendique un code de conduite pour les investisseurs en quête de terres agricoles
The Government of Japan, with the World Bank, FAO, IFAD and UNCTAD, try to initiate a coordinated global response to the growing land grabbing trend at the UN
