Oakland Institute

World Bank uses climate crisis as cover for land-grabbing, Oakland Institute says
- Mongabay
- 03 June 2025
"Whereas the Bank’s push for large-scale agribusiness is global, the African continent is its central target"
Under guise of climate action, the World Bank launches fresh offensive on land rights
- Oakland Institute
- 01 May 2025
Ahead of the World Bank’s 2025 Land Conference starting on May 5th in Washington D.C., a new Oakland Institute report exposes how the financial institution is using the pretext of climate crisis to push a global land “reform” agenda that favors corporate interests at the expense of people and the planet.
La chute d’un agro-business étatsunien accapareur de terres : faillite d’une nouvelle imposture pour exploiter l’Afrique
- Oakland Institute
- 09 October 2024
Il est désormais clair qu’African Agriculture ne tiendra pas ses promesses de « développement » de la région. Sur son lit de mort, l’entreprise doit restituer ses terres aux communautés du Sénégal, du Niger et de Mauritanie.
Demise of a land grabbing US-agribusiness: The latest in failed scams to dispossess Africa
- Oakland Institute
- 09 October 2024
The downfall of US-based firm African Agriculture is being closely watched by Senegalese communities who have struggled for years for the return of their lands.
EXPOSED: The Black Sea grain deal did not feed poor countries, the mass sale of Ukrainian farmland
- Going Underground
- 01 August 2023
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Anuradha Mittal, Founder and Executive Director of The Oakland Institute, which has reported on the IMF and World Bank’s carving up of Ukrainian farmland and the myths about the Black Sea Grain Deal
Dams and plantations upend livelihoods in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo River Valley
- Mongabay
- 16 May 2023
Researchers say the construction of a dam and sugarcane plantations has dispossessed the Lower Omo’s peoples of their farming and grazing lands and irreversibly altered the natural cycles of the Omo River.
Amidst chaos of war, a new report exposes the stealth take-over of Ukrainian agricultural land
- Oakland Institute
- 21 February 2023
One year into the war, a new report reveals how oligarchs and financial interests are expanding control over Ukraine’s agricultural land with help and financing from Western financial institutions.
Brazil: Time to end the ravages of industrial agriculture in the Cerrado and the Amazon
- Oakland Institute
- 01 September 2022
As the climate emergency gets more acute and devastating everyday, we can’t waste more time waiting for the decisive actions required to end the ravages caused by industrial agriculture in Brazil.
Un nouveau rapport révèle la menace que font poser les grandes plantations agricoles sur l'accès à l'eau en Afrique
- Oakland Institute
- 15 Mar 2022
Une revue de 15 projets dans 11 pays tire la sonnette d'alarme sur l'accaparement de l'eau et appelle à une action urgente pour protéger le droit à l'eau en Afrique.
72,000 people call on the United Nations to end business with the Bolloré Group
- Oakland Institute
- 14 February 2022
The Bolloré Group is involved in rubber and oil palm plantations through its 39.4 percent shareholdings of SOCFIN, which controls close to 400,000 hectares of concessions for plantations in Asia and Africa.
Meet the investors behind the PHC oil palm plantations in DRC
- Oakland Institute
- 08 February 2022
As community efforts to reclaim 100,000 ha of their ancestral land are met with violent repression, unlawful arrests, and murder, a new report exposes the financiers profiteering from the plantations in the DR Congo.
Gates Foundation among investors backing troubled DRC palm plantation
- Mongabay
- 08 February 2022
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation along with a number of prominent US university endowments are among the top investors in a troubled set of oil palm plantations in the DRC, according to a report from the Oakland Institute.