World Bank

The World Bank formally reiterates its concern over the large-scale corporate “land grabbing” that has affected vast swathes of Africa in recent years.

"Il faut veiller à ce que les achats de terres soient conformes à des normes éthiques et socialement responsables, notamment en reconnaissant les droits des utilisateurs locaux, en organisant des consultations avec les communautés locales et en versant un dédommagement juste, au prix du marché, pour les terres acquises," selon la Banque mondiale.

"In the rush to allocate land for agribusiness, care needs to be taken so that acquisitions are conducted according to ethical and socially responsible standards, including recognizing local users’ rights, holding consultations with local communities, and paying fair market-rate compensation for land acquired," says the World Bank.

The private investment arm of the World Bank, is going to back the medium-term expansion of ETC Group (ETG), incorporated in Mauritius and specializing trading in food and drink products.

¿Por qué la compra de órganos es objeto de condena internacional y la de tierras agrícolas no lo es, aún cuando supone la expulsión de los terratenientes locales y la producción de alimentos para exportación a países ricos y no para el consumo local?

This article calls into question the depth and effectiveness of a regulatory approach arguing that problems underlying large-scale land deals are so deep constituting socio-institutional problems of power asymmetry, exclusion and invisiblization, than just investment externalities or regulatory challenges.

Oil palm giant, Wilmar Nigeria Limited, and the Rainforest Resource and Development Centre (RRDC), an environmental rights group, are currently at logger heads over a massive land grab in a rural community in Cross River State, Southern Nigeria.

C’est la nouvelle démarche de la Banque mondiale pour rendre « socialement acceptable » l’accaparement de terres qui se développe comme une gangrène en Afrique.

A slide show by GRAIN that profiles some of those who have been most actively pursuing or supporting farmland grabs around the world.

Las grandes operaciones de compraventa de tierras financiadas por instituciones como el Banco Mundial obligan a las personas a abandonar sus hogares, sus trabajos y sus medios de vida.

Of the $4.2 billion that the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, invested in agribusiness and forestry in the same period, just three investments – or 2 percent – had any component related to land acquisition.

Derek Byerlee, co-author of a recent World Bank report The Rising Global Interest in Farmland, says world is running out of productive land and foreign investor and corporate land sales are on the rise across the globe.