How Africa can transform land tenure, revolutionize agriculture, and end poverty
    World Bank says its 10-step plan for land reform will enable African countries to end ‘land grabs,’ grow more food, and transform their development prospects.
    • World Bank
    • 22 July 2013
    Banque mondiale : Un plan en 10 étapes pour améliorer la gouvernance foncière
    Selon un nouveau rapport de la Banque mondiale, les pays africains pourraient mettre fin aux « accaparements des terres » s’ils parviennent à moderniser le droit foncier et la gestion des terres
    • APO
    • 22 July 2013
    La sécurisation foncière de l'Afrique sub-saharienne
    La Banque mondiale vient de publier un rapport chiffrant à 4,5 milliards de dollars l'effort financier qui doit être fait pour accélérer le processus de sécurisation foncière en Afrique sub-saharienne.
    • RFI
    • 19 July 2013
    The global land rush: Markets, rights, and the politics of food
    Frameworks that emphasize procedural safeguards to protect land users’ rights are ineffective at contesting the power dynamics at play in land transactions.
    • SSRN
    • 18 July 2013
    IFC financed 'land grabs' in Cambodia, Laos and Honduras exposed
    Investments by the World Bank's IFC in financial intermediaries are alleged to have financed 'land grabs' in South East Asia and violations of indigenous people's rights in Honduras.
    • Bretton Woods Project
    • 26 June 2013
    Ethiopia refuses to cooperate with World Bank funding probe
    Ethiopia’s government said it won’t cooperate with a probe into whether the World Bank violated its own policies by funding a program in which thousands of people were allegedly relocated to make way for agriculture investors.
    • Bloomberg
    • 28 May 2013
    Deutsche Bank and IFC accused of bankrolling Vietnam firms' land grabs
    Two Vietnamese firms bankrolled by Deutsche Bank and the International Finance Corporation – the World Bank's private lending arm – are leading a wave of land grabs in Cambodia and Laos, causing widespread evictions, illegal logging and food insecurity, according to a report.
    • The Guardian
    • 13 May 2013
    The World Bank’s palm oil policy
    Since 2011, World Bank investments in large palm oil companies have virtually stopped, but it has backed off from applying the same approach to other crops, although the risks to local communities and indigenous peoples from land grabs from other agribusinesses are not much different.
    • FPP
    • 30 April 2013
    Ethiopians stormed World Bank in Washington DC
    Ethiopians stormed the 17th Street Office complex of the World Bank in Washington DC, protesting the bank’s alleged support for land grab and ethnic cleansing by President Girma Wolde-Giorgis
    • Daily Independent
    • 23 April 2013
    Lo dicen
    El Banco Mundial propone cambios en la propiedad de la tierra y aumentar la productividad de los predios.
    • La Diaria
    • 11 April 2013
    World Bank: Access to land is critical for the poor
    "The World Bank has launched a consultative process with all stakeholders to review and update our environmental and social safeguards policies, which will be informed by the VGs. Land acquisition is a part of this conversation."
    • This Day
    • 11 April 2013
    La Banque mondiale veut mettre l’accent sur les droits fonciers
    La Banque mondiale mettra un accent plus fort sur les questions de régime foncier et des investissements agricoles durables aux plans social et environnemental, a-t-elle annoncé lundi à Washington.
    • IPS
    • 10 April 2013

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