World Bank

eDiscussion on World Bank report
- Global Donor Platform
- 13 September 2010
The eDiscussion will take place from 13 September to 8 October and is open to all.
The backlash begins against the world landgrab
- The Telegraph
- 12 September 2010
The World Bank appears deeply torn. While the report endorses the Bank's open-door globalisation agenda, the sub-text dissents on every page.
Les prédateurs s’accaparent les terres arables africaines
- Tribune de Genève
- 11 September 2010
En eux-mêmes, ces investissements ne sont pas forcément mauvais, note la Banque mondiale. Mais dans les faits, ils s’effectuent dans des conditions «très souvent» désastreuses pour les populations locales.
World Bank report decries global land grab while encouraging it
- Uprising Radio
- 10 September 2010
While the Bank warns of a lack of transparency and the potential harm to poor people, it ultimately endorses the land grabs in the name of productivity and sound investment.
EU, US biofuels rules aggravating third world land grab, World Bank says
- EU Observer
- 10 September 2010
In a 164-page report that actually endorses the practice of the sale of vast tracts of agricultural land to foreign buyers, the global lender nevertheless frets over the fall-out of northern legislation that makes investors view every farm, jungle and meadow in the third world the same way they view an oil field, says the EU Observer
Banco Mundial pide controles a venta de tierra en países pobres
- BBC
- 10 September 2010
El Banco Mundial (BM) pidió la aplicación de controles más estrictos a la compra de grandes extensiones de tierra agrícola en países en desarrollo.
La Banque mondiale propose le retour au métayage mondialisé
- Verts/ALE au PE
- 09 September 2010
"L'urgence n'est pas de multiplier sur l'ensemble de la planète un modèle unique agro-industriel qui a fait faillite. Il faut au contraire lancer un programme international en faveur de l'agriculture familiale," s'exclame Jose Bové du Parlement Européen
World Bank land alert
- Phnom Penh Post
- 09 September 2010
In Cambodia, an assessment of the impact of foreign farmland acquisitions has been hampered by a lack of data, including the total number of concessions awarded and an accurate set of GPS coordinates for each concession, the World Bank says.
La Banque mondiale dénonce le Monopoly agricole
- Le Figaro
- 08 September 2010
Avec son rapport publié ce mercredi, la Banque mondiale met le pied sur une poudrière. Intitulé «L'intérêt croissant pour les terres agricoles dans le monde peut-il apporter de bénéfices équitables à long terme?», il relance la guerre entre industriels et paysans.
BM advierte del impacto de la compra de tierras a gran escala
- EFE
- 08 September 2010
Según el Banco Mundial, antes de 2008 la expansión anual promedio de tierras agrícolas en todo el mundo era de menos de 4 millones de hectáreas, pero "antes de que terminara 2009 se habían anunciado contratos de compraventa de tierras en gran escala por 45 millones de hectáreas".
Unprecedented land grabbing and destruction of ecological environment in Gambela, Ethiopia
- ASO
- 08 September 2010
Anywaa Survival Organisation would like to call upon indigenous people to resist this kind of land grabbing effort of the Ethiopian government, now acknowledged by a World Bank report
Land grabs in poor countries set to increase
- IPS
- 08 September 2010
The World Bank report calls for global implementation of investment principles it drafted last year but notes that enforcement mechanisms do not exist.