World Bank

To speak only of the ‘threats and potential opportunities’ that these investments highlight leaves underexposed the grave risks to human rights that they pose, writes Dr. Margot Salomon, from the London School of Economics

"Investors are targeting countries with weak laws, buying arable land on the cheap, and failing to deliver on promises of jobs and investments," says a leaked draft of the World Bank report

The way to make it possible for third parties to benefit materially in exchange for a signature is to eliminate the profit motive.

La Banca mondiale è «un anomale complesso», conclude de Schutter, e da un lato incoraggia i grandi acquisti di terra - dall'altro commissiona studi che ne dimostrano gli effetti negativi.

Investidores em terras agrícolas estão visando países com leis frágeis, comprando terra arável por uma ninharia e deixando de cumprir promessas de geração de empregos e investimentos, de acordo com a minuta de um relatório do Banco Mundial (Bird).

The report is due for publication next month, but leaks are already getting out, and causing a stir among Brussels’ huge development activist community.

Investors in farmland are targeting countries with weak laws, buying arable land on the cheap and failing to deliver on promises of jobs and investments, according to the draft of a report by the World Bank.

Libya has mobilised investment funds and is seeking area for production and export of food.

"We support continued efforts to develop principles for investment in the agricultural sector undertaken by the World Bank, regional development banks, FAO, UNCTAD, and IFAD," say G8 heads of state.

"It's not something that is going to take too long, it's not rocket science," Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the OECD, said of the planned guidelines on agriculture.

Après avoir appauvri les peuples du Sud par une mainmise sur l’exploitation de leurs richesses, la finance internationale s’attaque maintenant à l’appropriation directe de leurs territoires.

El Banco Mundial está favoreciendo la apropiación de tierras africanas por parte de empresas extranjeras para que éstas las dediquen al jugoso negocio de los biocombustibles.