World Bank

Debating the global land grab
- IDS
- 25 Mar 2011
A new report is released this week to coincide with the forthcoming international conference on the global land grab to be held at IDS, University of Sussex.
Biofuels, mass evictions and violence build on the legacy of the 1978 Panzos Massacre in Guatemala
- Upside Down World
- 23 Mar 2011
Internationally-funded Guatemalan palm oil and sugar cane interests evict Mayan Qeqchi families from their historic lands, destroying homes and crops, killing one, injuring more, while thousands are without food or shelter.
Middle East's investments in African farmlands are rooted in food security fears
- Knowledge@Wharton
- 22 Mar 2011
The Arab unrest has only doubled the efforts of Gulf countries to secure food production by buying farmland around the world, as they try to buffer themselves from the economic issues that have destabilized the region.
Ukraine, Russia grain export curbs deter investors
- Reuters
- 09 Mar 2011
"Politically the (Ukraine) government wants to reassure the population that these traders are not going to export grain while the population starves," says the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
In field and for food, the return of structural adjustment
- Fahamu
- 02 Mar 2011
Principles for responsible agriculture investment are stock templates, designed to deflect the fallout from a growing number of media reports of land deals between investors and governments.
Land moves up the political agenda
- CIP & AWEPA
- 22 February 2011
In Mozambique, there has been an unofficial halt to new large land grants.
El costo de un mal negocio
- Juventud Rebelde
- 19 February 2011
La explosiva convergencia de la crisis alimentaria y financiera de 2008 desencadenó una nueva carrera por la apropiación de tierras africanas, que se mantiene hasta hoy. Las corporaciones de alimentos y los inversionistas privados buscan arrancar su tajada
[FSM2011] Appel de Dakar contre les accaparements de terres
- FSM2011
- 11 February 2011
Nous en appelons aux parlements et aux gouvernements nationaux pour que cessent immédiatement tous les accaparements fonciers massifs en cours ou à venir et que soient restituées les terres spoliées.
Concessional Funding Key to Unlock Africa’s Agriculture
- World Bank
- 29 January 2011
Experts meeting at the World Bank in Washington, DC, discuss how best to assist African smallholder farmers to transition from subsistence to commercial farming.
El acaparamiento de la tierra agraria: otra amenaza para la soberanía alimentaria
- Soberanía Alimentaria, Biodiversidad y culturas
- 29 January 2011
Algo nuevo está pasando, como explica este artículo: la industria financiera ahora se suma a la carrera para controlar tierra agraria de ultramar, con un impacto desastroso para las comunidades rurales que dependen de estas tierras.
El acaparamiento de la tierra agraria: otra amenaza para la soberanía alimentaria
- Soberanía Alimentaria, Biodiversidad y culturas
- 29 January 2011
Algo nuevo está pasando, como explica este artículo: la industria financiera ahora se suma a la carrera para controlar tierra agraria de ultramar, con un impacto desastroso para las comunidades rurales que dependen de estas tierras.
Global land grabbing: Eroding food sovereignty
- PAN AP
- 14 January 2011
Land deals, whether as direct purchases or long-term leases, are being brokered in poor countries by advanced capitalist countries and their TNCs