Oakland Institute

My Home, My Land is a graphic representation that dismantles the myths promoted by donor countries, development agencies, and corporations about the positive effects of foreign direct investments through large-scale land acquisitions.

New report gives damning indictment of the government’s mandatory resettlement policy carried out in a political climate of torture, oppression and silencing.

On Monday, March 23th the World Bank's Conference on Land and Poverty begins in the US. But farmer organizations, indigenous groups, trade unions and others denounce the whole exercise as a sham that is all about accelerating corporate land grabs and robbing the poor that the Bank was founded to assist.

Civil society rejects the World Bank’s sham Conference on Land and Poverty and denounces the Bank’s role in global land grabs.

Today, on the heels of Ukraine’s new cabinet appointments, the Oakland Institute is releasing a new brief detailing western agribusiness investments in the country.

Gobiernos y empresas han acaparado en los países en desarrollo un área mayor que México

Après des années de campagnes, il est temps de s’interroger sur les résultats acquis : la mobilisation des ONG a-t-elle réellement fait reculer les expropriations de terre ?

Anuradha Mittal, Executive Director of the Oakland Institute, argues that the time has come for a more holistic discussion of land deals that places transfer of land in both the developed and developing worlds along the same continuous spectrum.

Alors que l'attention du monde a été orientée vers la crise politique, des réformes économiques radicales sont en train d’être introduites sous la direction du président nouvellement élu, Petro Porochenko

Un campaña virtual responsabiliza al Banco Mundial por el acaparamiento de tierras y recursos en todo el planeta, en detrimento de los derechos de las poblaciones locales campesinas e indígenas.

World Bank’s new country rankings system will prize deregulation of the agriculture sector and is expected to enable further land grabbing around the world.

Dans cet entretien accordé à Ouestafnews, Frédéric Mousseau, directeur des Politiques de l’Institut Oakland, revient sur les enjeux de ce projet qui, selon lui, pose un problème de transparence et analyse la position de l’Etat sénégalais, principal soutien de cet investissement.