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Reuters24 Aug 10African governments need to raise their level of accountability and ensure that they improve and protect their own food security through quid pro quo side-agreements negotiated when they lease or sell their arable land to foreign interests, says Keith Mullin of Thompson Reuters
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RFI17 Aug 10La polémique autour de l'accaparement de terres, en particulier en Afrique, est relancée par une étude de la Banque mondiale qui tarde à être publiée alors que le cours du blé repart à la hausse
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Craccum16 Aug 10States and mega-corporations are snapping up cheap land to produce food and making money at the expense of people in host countries.
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Tribune de Genève12 Aug 10
L’ennui, reconnaît la Banque mondiale, c’est que ces investissements, loin d’être une aubaine pour le continent noir, finissent par nuire à des populations déjà pauvres et à des économies précaires.
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Oakland Institute02 Aug 10"Investors are targeting countries with weak laws, buying arable land on the cheap, and failing to deliver on promises of jobs and investments," says a leaked draft of the World Bank report
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Socialist Standard01 Aug 10The way to make it possible for third parties to benefit materially in exchange for a signature is to eliminate the profit motive.
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Il Manifesto31 Jul 10La Banca mondiale è «un anomale complesso», conclude de Schutter, e da un lato incoraggia i grandi acquisti di terra - dall'altro commissiona studi che ne dimostrano gli effetti negativi.
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MST29 Jul 10Investidores em terras agrícolas estão visando países com leis frágeis, comprando terra arável por uma ninharia e deixando de cumprir promessas de geração de empregos e investimentos, de acordo com a minuta de um relatório do Banco Mundial (Bird).
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WSJ29 Jul 10The report is due for publication next month, but leaks are already getting out, and causing a stir among Brussels’ huge development activist community.
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Financial Times27 Jul 10Investors in farmland are targeting countries with weak laws, buying arable land on the cheap and failing to deliver on promises of jobs and investments, according to the draft of a report by the World Bank.
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Invest Brazil01 Jul 10 Libya has mobilised investment funds and is seeking area for production and export of food.
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Canadian Press26 Jun 10"We support continued efforts to develop principles for investment in the agricultural sector undertaken by the World Bank, regional development banks, FAO, UNCTAD, and IFAD," say G8 heads of state.
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Reuters15 Jun 10"It's not something that is going to take too long, it's not rocket science," Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the OECD, said of the planned guidelines on agriculture.
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CADTM14 Jun 10Après avoir appauvri les peuples du Sud par une mainmise sur l’exploitation de leurs richesses, la finance internationale s’attaque maintenant à l’appropriation directe de leurs territoires.
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Guin Guin Bali11 Jun 10El Banco Mundial está favoreciendo la apropiación de tierras africanas por parte de empresas extranjeras para que éstas las dediquen al jugoso negocio de los biocombustibles.
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SID07 Jun 10ILC is actually trying to promote some sort of dialogue between the different proposals for principles for responsible farmland investment
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Project Syndicate06 Jun 10Es lamentable que, en lugar de desarrollar la agricultura de un modo que sea social y medioambientalmente más sostenible, actuemos como si se pudiera acelerar responsablemente la destrucción del campesinado mundial.
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Project Syndicate06 Jun 10Il est regrettable que, au lieu d’encourager une agriculture durable d’un point de vue social et environnemental, nous agissions comme si accélérer la destruction du monde paysan devait se faire de manière responsable.
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Project Syndicate04 Jun 10أشر مقرر خاص للأمم المتحدة أن المبادئ السبعة للاستثمار الزراعي المسؤول المعلنة من طرف البنك الدولي و الأ مم المتحدة غير ملائمة مع الحق للتغذية
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Project Syndicate04 Jun 10World Bank and UN's seven Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment are "woefully inadequate" says UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food.