A push to privatise land and other resources in countries from Ukraine to Papua New Guinea is hurting indigenous people and the rural poor, while increasing the risks linked to climate change.

Over the past 10 years, the World Bank’s private investment arm has sunk more than $1.8 billion into major livestock and factory farming companies across the world.

The complaint to the independent watchdog and accountability mechanism of the Wolrd Bank relates to a series of gross human rights abuses perpetrated against the indigenous people in SRC’s concession areas.

Phoenix Global - the Dubai-based agri-trader which directly farmed more than 150,000 hectares in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Russia, Uganda, Mozambique and India - is now in liquidation

The funds will be used for the procurement of specific agri-commodities from smallholder farmers in Vietnam, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea and Uganda as well as the expansion of Olam’s cocoa processing facility in Indonesia.

Alexandra Goujon, politologue spécialiste de l’Ukraine à Sciences Po, décrypte les modalités et les conséquences de cette libéralisation des terres agricoles à venir.

If a national referendum on the sale of agricultural land was held in the next week, 74% would vote against the sale of land as required by the IMF, Ukranian researchers show

The International Finance Corporation welcome Ukraine's newly adopted land law but indicates it doesn't go far enough

World Bank and IMF policies have provided key support for the financialisation of food and agriculture, resulting in landgrabs, price volatility, the concentration of power and the expansion of climate-damaging industrial agriculture

Espérant recevoir une autre tranche du FMI, fin mars 2020, les « serviteurs du peuple » de Zelensky, en alliance avec M. Porochenko, ont vendu les terres de l’Ukraine. Mais ils ne les ont pas vendues tout à fait correctement. En tout cas, du point de vue de l’Occident.

Dans la nuit du 30 au 31 mars 2020, la Rada a voté la levée du moratoire sur la vente des terres agricoles afin que l’Ukraine puisse potentiellement recevoir une nouvelle tranche d’aide financière du FMI et éviter le défaut de paiement.

SOCFIN's subsidiary, the Salala Rubber Corporation, rejects dispute resolution with 22 communities in Liberia who filed a complaint with the IFC's Compliance Advisory Ombudsman, citing concerns with the "partiality of CAO’s team".