For the World Bank guaranteeing land tenure means business security for large investors, but for small scale producers, Indigenous peoples, workers, and grassroots communities it means land grabbing and displacement
On the opening day of the World Bank's 2024 Land Conference, small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples, workers, grassroots communities, and civil society issue statement denouncing the World Bank for land grabbing and ecosystem destruction.
El impulso del Banco para la seguridad de la tenencia de la tierra ayuda a facilitar el acaparamiento de tierras, en medio del desplazamiento de millones de personas y la financierización de los sectores agrícolas en los países del Sur Global
The transferability of land, along with the liberalisation of agriculture and finance the Bank and IMF have pushed on Global South states, have facilitated investment in agribusiness and driven the financialisation of national agricultural sectors.
The World Bank’s independent watchdog, the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO), has finalized its investigation into a complaint filed five years ago, alleging grave human rights violations by communities living near the Salala Rubber Corporation in Liberia.
A comprehensive study of thousands of agribusiness and other projects funded by the World Bank’s IFC from 1994-2022 finds that the average project "causes 7.6 additional armed conflict events in the year after it is introduced”.
A loan from the World Bank's IFC will enable the firm to develop a 536-hectare shrimp farm in the Guayas coastal province and discussions are underway for the potential addition of 500 hectares in Panama.
A World Bank Group entity has agreed to a settlement to end a case alleging that it is liable for financing a notorious palm oil company’s violent land-grabbing campaign in Honduras
El futuro de la agricultura ucraniana debe dar prioridad a los pequeños agricultores, la transparencia del mercado de tierras, la sostenibilidad medioambiental y la lucha contra el cambio climático
Le prêt a été accordé suite à la certification RSPO des plantations de l'entreprise singapourienne au Gabon
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Anuradha Mittal, Founder and Executive Director of The Oakland Institute, which has reported on the IMF and World Bank’s carving up of Ukrainian farmland and the myths about the Black Sea Grain Deal
The World Bank’s private-sector lending arm is planning a return to palm oil financing after a 14-year suspension with a proposal for a syndicated loan of up to US$350 million to Olam to develop palm oil plantations in Gabon.
