World Bank

Wall Street eyes farmland
- DTN
- 07 May 2010
Wall Street financiers now interested in channeling billions of new dollars into cropland include heavy hitters like UBS, Morgan Stanley and Rabobank.
Sierra Leone: Protecting investors, but what about the people?
- Pambazuka
- 06 May 2010
When will governments recognise the immense potential of their own farmers and their sustainable, diverse family farming systems, that are so desperately in need of genuine 'responsible' agricultural investment to assure food and seed sovereignty, asks Joan Baxter
Accaparement des terres arables : La Côte d'Ivoire menacée, selon la CIBIOV
- FratMat
- 05 May 2010
Même si l’ampleur des dégâts n’atteint pas encore celle des 28 Etats africains déjà durement frappés par l’accaparement des terres, il n’en demeure pas moins qu’en Côte d’ivoire, le phénomène existe.
The World Bank in the hot seat
- GRAIN
- 04 May 2010
The World Bank is marching ahead with plans to facilitate global land grabs, while not releasing a report that confirms the negative impacts of these deals for local communities.
Africa: What will continent export if it leases farmland to Arabs?
- Business Daily
- 04 May 2010
"Investors like Citadel Capital and Goldman Sachs must be stopped from acquiring large tracts of land in Africa because this practice has become a serious threat to the continent's food sovereignty"
La Banque mondiale sur la sellette
- GRAIN
- 04 May 2010
La Banque mondiale entend poursuivre ses efforts pour favoriser l’accaparement mondial des terres et refuse de publier une étude confirmant les effets néfastes de ces transactions sur les communautés locales.
Pinstripes, pitchforks and profits
- Reuters
- 04 May 2010
"In the age of derivatives and evaporating valuations, farmland is gold with a cash flow."
El Banco Mundial en el banquillo
- GRAIN
- 04 May 2010
El Banco Mundial impulsa planes que facilitan los acaparamientos de tierra a nivel mundial, mientras se niega a hacer público un informe que confirma los impactos negativos de estos acuerdos comerciales en las comunidades locales.
Globalisation and the foreignisation of space: seven processes driving the current global land grab
- Journal of Peasant Studies
- 30 April 2010
'Codes of conduct’ as proposed by several quarters in the context of global land grab are unlikely to work in favour of the poor.
Summit urges modernisation, not westernisation, of land sector
- World Bank
- 30 April 2010
Radical economic, structural and social change may be spawned by growing demand for land in certain countries, and so may love affairs, says the World Bank.
El Banco Mundial y el acaparamiento de tierras
- Tercera Información
- 29 April 2010
Esta advertencia se hizo plausible cuando el Banco Mundial lanzó la noticia en un encuentro en Washington el 26 y 27 de abril. Durante el acto, anunció sus compromisos voluntarios para proteger a largo plazo los derechos, los modos de vida y los recursos de estos continentes durante los procesos de adquisición de tierras por parte de inversores extranjeros.
We will not stand for the grab for our land!
- ABN
- 29 April 2010
African civil society claims that the voluntary guidelines will do nothing to prevent the continued threat to food security, forests, and the rights of African rural and indigenous communities to live on their land and feed themselves.