Bajo Aguán, a fertile agricultural region in the north of Honduras, might at first glance look like paradise. But in fact, it is part of a historic land struggle and the site of a an undeclared and largely invisible war, where only one side has arms.
- Toward Freedom
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20 August 2013
Jamal Saghir, directeur du développement durable pour la région Afrique de la Banque mondiale, expose l’importance de mener d’urgence des réformes foncières profondes dans les pays du continent.
World Bank says its 10-step plan for land reform will enable African countries to end ‘land grabs,’ grow more food, and transform their development prospects.
Selon un nouveau rapport de la Banque mondiale, les pays africains pourraient mettre fin aux « accaparements des terres » s’ils parviennent à moderniser le droit foncier et la gestion des terres
La Banque mondiale vient de publier un rapport chiffrant à 4,5 milliards de dollars l'effort financier qui doit être fait pour accélérer le processus de sécurisation foncière en Afrique sub-saharienne.
Frameworks that emphasize procedural safeguards to protect land users’ rights are ineffective at contesting the power dynamics at play in land transactions.
Investments by the World Bank's IFC in financial intermediaries are alleged to have financed 'land grabs' in South East Asia and violations of indigenous people's rights in Honduras.
- Bretton Woods Project
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26 June 2013
Ethiopia’s government said it won’t cooperate with a probe into whether the World Bank violated its own policies by funding a program in which thousands of people were allegedly relocated to make way for agriculture investors.
Two Vietnamese firms bankrolled by Deutsche Bank and the International Finance Corporation – the World Bank's private lending arm – are leading a wave of land grabs in Cambodia and Laos, causing widespread evictions, illegal logging and food insecurity, according to a report.
Since 2011, World Bank investments in large palm oil companies have virtually stopped, but it has backed off from applying the same approach to other crops, although the risks to local communities and indigenous peoples from land grabs from other agribusinesses are not much different.
Ethiopians stormed the 17th Street Office complex of the World Bank in Washington DC, protesting the bank’s alleged support for land grab and ethnic cleansing by President Girma Wolde-Giorgis
- Daily Independent
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23 April 2013
El Banco Mundial propone cambios en la propiedad de la tierra y aumentar la productividad de los predios.
