World Bank

Cambodian indigenous communities win back their sacred land from Vietnamese rubber developer
- IDI
- 26 Mar 2019
Communities also file second complaint against the World Bank for new financial ties to HAGL
Lamissa Diakité, PDG de l’ATI du Mali : « Nous avons besoin d’investissements dans l’agriculture, première source de croissance de l’économie malienne »
- Africa Presse
- 24 Mar 2019
Afin d’accélérer le développement de ses terres non exploitées, le Mali s’est doté depuis 2015 d’une entité dédiée, l’Agence d’Aménagement des Terres et de fourniture de l’eau d’Irrigation (ATI)
Farming gamble fails
- Africa Confidential
- 22 Mar 2019
Ambitions for venture capital in African agriculture – once the Next Big Thing – are foundering, as is the case with the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania.
Supreme Court rules that World Bank Group can be sued in US Courts in historic decision
- CIEL
- 27 February 2019
US Supreme Court rules that the World Bank's IFC can be sued. This may create new legal liability for development finance institutions whose funding harms local communities.
Nigeria: Edo, CBN partner on development of 100,000-hectare plantation
- Vanguard
- 28 January 2019
Edo State Governor tells delegation of World Bank's IFC that his government is in discussions with the Central Bank of Nigeria to develop a programme to provide investors with 100,000 ha of agricultural land for plantations.
World Bank’s new scheme to privatize land in the developing world exposed
- Oakland Institue
- 24 January 2019
A new Oakland Institute report details how the Bank’s Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) project promotes large-scale land acquisitions and the expansion of agribusinesses in the developing world.
Vendre les terres au plus offrant: Le plan de la Banque mondiale pour privatiser les biens communs
- Oakland Institute
- 24 January 2019
Ce nouveau rapport de l'Oakland Institute détaille comment la Banque préconise des réformes qui encouragent les acquisitions de terres à grande échelle et l'expansion de l'agrobusiness dans les pays en développement.
Hasunga pledges enabling climate for investment in agriculture
- IPP Media
- 26 November 2018
During the launch of the Kilombero SAGCOT cluster, Tanzania's Minister of Agriculture says his government would continue creating an enabling environment suitable for attracting more investors into the agricultural sector.
Ndiawdoune rejette le canal du PDIDAS : les populations fustigent « la méthode « solidaire et discriminatoire » du projet
- Ndar Info
- 15 October 2018
La construction d’un futur canal reliant Makhana et Ndiawsir provoque l’ire des populations qui sonnent la résistance contre le Projet pour le développement inclusif et durable de l'agrobusiness au Sénégal
IMF-WBG and landgrabbing: Funding rural peoples’ destitution
- PCFS
- 12 October 2018
Despite all the hypocritical calls and posturing of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank for ending hunger, they have facilitated, enabled, and led the global rush for landgrabs
World Bank – IMF guilty of promoting land grabs, increasing inequality
- LVC
- 08 October 2018
Peasant organisations have pledged to expose the incriminating role of the World Bank and IMF in increasing inequality, land dispossession and poverty, as the annual meeting of these bodies get under way in Bali.
The toll of doing business on people and the environment in Indonesia
- Oakland Institute
- 02 October 2018
New report from Oakland Institute, Indonesia: The World Bank’s Failed East Asian Miracle details how Bank-backed policy reforms have led to the displacement, criminalization, and even murder of smallholder farmers and indigenous defenders to make way for mega-agricultural projects.