Pumping public dollars into the destructive industrial meat sector is neither climate-resilient nor climate-smart, say Kari Hamerschlag and Peter Stevenson. It's also fuelling land grabbing.
"Reducing the risk of land conflicts and offering opportunities for investments are critical for Sierra Leone," says the Bank's representative
À Madagascar, la société civile s’oppose à ce que les investisseurs étrangers puissent devenir propriétaires de terres malgaches. Mais la Banque mondiale insiste qu'il faut faire de la place pour de plus grosses exploitations agricoles.
La Banque mondiale et le Fonds monétaire international font pression sur le gouvernement malgache pour que les investisseurs étrangers puissent devenir propriétaires de terres malgaches
Witness Radio surveyed some projects in Uganda funded by development banks and found agony, illegal evictions, abject poverty, environmental degradation, and loss of life among others.
The digitalisation of information on land and natural resources is exacerbating land grabbing in the remaining agricultural frontiers of Latin America.
Para corporaciones e inversionistas, el acceso a informaciones actualizadas de un “perfil digital de tierras” permite localizar, cuantificar la oferta y la demanda y fijar precios sobre las tierras, la producción y los recursos naturales, así como los créditos de carbono.
A massive pig breeding and farming operation in Vietnam is set to expand, aided by $26 million in funding recently granted by the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
We can no longer afford to pour billions in public money into projects that exacerbate debt, inequalities, poverty and climate change
13 ans depuis l'affaire Daewoo, des cas d'accaparements de terres continuent à défrayer les chroniques à Madagascar
Whether foreigners should be allowed to buy land is one of the bones of contention surrounding the reform, with more than 80 percent of Ukrainians opposed to it.
In the country known as the “breadbasket of Europe,” agriculture has been dominated by oligarchs and multinational corporations since the privatization of state-owned land following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Will this change, now that a controversial law to create a land market entered into effect on July 1, 2021?
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Gli alberi della discordia
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The AfCFTA and land in Africa: towards a surge in land grabbing?
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