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Concessional Funding Key to Unlock Africa’s Agriculture
- World Bank
- 29 January 2011
Experts meeting at the World Bank in Washington, DC, discuss how best to assist African smallholder farmers to transition from subsistence to commercial farming.
Fund investments in food and agribusiness: Recent trends in ECA
- EastAgri
- 14 October 2010
Presentation on farmland investment funds in East Europe and Central Asia
Land grabs are cheap deals for rich countries
- ILEIA
- 16 September 2010
The International Financial Corporation has actually increased the ability of foreign investors to acquire land in developing country markets by promoting profitable deals, creating “investment promotion agencies” and rewriting national laws., says Anuradha Mittal
La Banque mondiale accusée de favoriser l’accaparement des terres africaines par des groupes étrangers
- Ouestafnews
- 25 May 2010
Un rapport accablant, produit par un « think tank » américain, accuse la SFI, filiale de la Banque mondiale, de faciliter « l’accaparement des terres » en Afrique
Sierra Leone: Protecting investors, but what about the people?
- Pambazuka
- 06 May 2010
When will governments recognise the immense potential of their own farmers and their sustainable, diverse family farming systems, that are so desperately in need of genuine 'responsible' agricultural investment to assure food and seed sovereignty, asks Joan Baxter
(Mis)investment in agriculture: The role of the International Finance Corporation in the global land grab
- Oakland Institute
- 26 April 2010
New report by Oakland Institute exposes the role of the World Bank’s private sector branch, International Finance Corporation, in fueling land grabs.
IFC lends a hand in great "land grab"
- Bretton Woods Project
- 20 November 2009
As the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank, announces plans to increase investment in agribusiness by up to 30 per cent in the next three years, NGO reports shed light on the IFC's role in the 'land grab' movement and flaws in its approach to the food crisis.
The great land grab: Rush for world's farmland threatens food security for the poor
- Oakland Institute
- 08 October 2009
A new report from the Oakland Institute lays bare the insidious role played by international financial institutions like the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank and Foreign Investment Advisory Service, as well as rich nations, in promoting and facilitating this widespread land reappropriation--all in the name of promoting food security through foreign investment in agriculture.
Leading experts to speak at Global AgInvesting 2009 conference in New York
- Soyatech
- 11 May 2009
Aimed at public and private market investors, this conference will explore opportunities for global investments in agricultural lands, commodities and infrastructure in North and South America, Australia, China, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
‘Agrologistics’ at home and abroad
- Ghana News
- 03 May 2009
Private equity used to stay away from anything to do with agriculture, put off by the uncontrollable risks of bad climate and natural disasters. And yet in the last three years some big funds have been launched in the agribusiness space, and they are busy trying different ways of mitigating the risks.
IFC to invest $200 mln in Africa agribusiness
- Reuters
- 09 April 2009
The International Finance Corporation, the World Bank's private sector lending arm, will nearly double its investment in agribusiness in Africa to $200 million during the 2009 fiscal year, a senior official said.
10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now: 7. The Rent-A-Country
- TIME Magazine
- 13 Mar 2009
Growing crops for strangers, of course, is nothing new. The long, grim march of colonialism was driven by Europe’s penchant for sugar, tea, tobacco and other crops that don’t flourish in northern climes. But as climate change and growing populations put ever more pressure on the earth, state-backed searches for land and food contracts as part of a national food-security strategy strike many as fundamentally new.