"The World Bank Group congratulates the Ukrainian Leadership on the successful first reading of the law to lift the moratorium on agricultural land sales," the Bank said in a statement on Facebook
The World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development have reaffirmed their support for the Ukrainian government’s plans to lift a more than decade-long moratorium on the purchases of Ukrainian farmland
Dans cet article accessible et instructif, Renaud Vivien du CADTM explique comment la Banque mondiale et le FMI ont imposé aux pays du Sud des politiques destructrices pour les économies locales au profit des multinationales.
La politique de Macky Sall n’a pas pu mettre fin à l’accaparement des terres rurales qui, en 2016, transmettait 270.908 hectares, soit 3% des terres arables, à 18 privés, dont 6 Sénégalais, 9 français et 3 autres étrangers, selon Ibrahima Sene
Selon le Prof Ibrahima Arouna Diallo, le coordinateur du réseau NELGA, la vallée du fleuve Sénégal "est un grenier de plus en plus menacé avec les investissements privés, les accaparements et la saturation des terres".
Leah Soroka, program manager for Eastern Europe and central Asia agri-finance with the World Bank's IFC, said the President's proposal to privatise farmland would be a game-changer.
The World Bank and the Finance Ministry of Ukraine signed an agreement to raise a loan in the amount of USD 200 million for the programme Accelerating Private Investment in Agriculture.
As evidenced in Liberia, World Bank support has gone to multinational corporations involved in vicious land grabs that have succeeded in displacing thousands of poor villagers from their ancestral lands
The Liberian Observer has reliably gathered that the International Finance Corporation has tabled all SRC’s loan application processes pending full scale investigation into a recent complaint filed against it by 22 indigenous Liberian communities.
The jobs and development promised to rural communities by investors who inked deals with the Liberian government in the late 2000s have failed to materialize in the wake of land disputes and conflicts.
