Despite earlier commitments that safeguards on land rights would be strengthened, the proposed policy changes would gut essential requirements necessary to prevent displacement, impoverishment, and environmental damage.
Un campaña virtual responsabiliza al Banco Mundial por el acaparamiento de tierras y recursos en todo el planeta, en detrimento de los derechos de las poblaciones locales campesinas e indígenas.
Plight of Kenya's indigenous Sengwer shows carbon offsets are empowering corporate recolonisation of the South
The World Bank's IFC is providing $250 million in debt financing to Ukraine's leading poultry producer Myronivsky Hliboproduct, which has a land bank of 320,000 ha in Ukraine and 40,000 ha in Russia.
A US government agency, a World Bank Group member and a private equity fund plan to help half a million small-scale farmers boost yields and improve food security in sub-Saharan Africa.
MIGA—the political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm of the World Bank Group—plays an important role in making agricultural FDI more effective by reducing investors’ perceived risks to encourage market entry while applying environmental and social performance standards that boost the project’s sustainability.
Millions of smallholder farmers worldwide have been left homeless and hungry because of private investment promoted by policies such as tax breaks and cheap loans, says report
A World Bank-supported rubber company accused of land grabs has suspended some of its projects in Cambodia, as an investigation by the bank continues.
Within Honduras, the murder rate climbs as one travels north to the central Atlantic coast departments. In the heart of this region lies the lush Lower Aguán Valley, a center of deadly conflict over land rights.
The International Finance Corporation has launched an internal investigation into a complaint lodged against the institution for investing in a Vietnamese rubber firm accused of land grabbing.
Controversial Vietnamese rubber giant Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) Group is to expand its agricultural business in Cambodia to include corn, according to the company’s CEO Nguyen Van Su.
Pour plus de viande et plus de produits laitiers en Afrique, les "experts" prôntent un modèle à deux vitesses : encourager l'élevage intensif des investisseurs et soutenir l'élevage extensif des plus pauvres.
