• Olivier De Schutter: “Principles for responsible investment in agriculture”
    • UNCTAD
    • 26 April 2010

    I am worried. A consensus is emerging among international institutions about the need to guide investment in agriculture. But at the same time, many civil society groups and farmers’ organisations, including the most representative among them, denounce ‘land-grabbing’.

  • (Mis)investment in agriculture: The role of the International Finance Corporation in the global land grab
    • Oakland Institute
    • 26 April 2010

    New report by Oakland Institute exposes the role of the World Bank’s private sector branch, International Finance Corporation, in fueling land grabs.

  • US farmer speaks out about World Bank land grab principles
    • NFFC
    • 26 April 2010

    We, the peasants and small farmers of the world, do not need agribusiness and international investment schemes to eat.

  • US remarks: Roundtable on Responsible Agricultural Investment
    • US State Dept
    • 25 April 2010

    We need to hear the results of research and case studies done by FAO, UNCTAD, IFAD and the World Bank, so we can respond as governments and organizations based on solid information and not hearsay.

  • Denuncian que el Banco Mundial promueve acaparamiento de tierra
    • La Jornada
    • 25 April 2010

    Más de cien organizaciones de todo el mundo exigen frenar la ola de acaparamiento de tierras de inversionistas oficiales y privados que se están apoderando de millones de hectáreas de cultivos de comunidades rurales de África, Asia y América Latina.

  • Statement by Qatar to Roundtable on Responsible Agricultural Investments
    • IIASA
    • 25 April 2010

    An equitable shared-benefits agreement can best provide the basis for responsible and sustainable agricultural development, especially in currently cultivated land areas where the yield gaps are large.

  • Pour un arrêt immédiat de l'accaparement des terres de nos aïeux !
    • Synergie Paysanne
    • 24 April 2010

    La ruée sur les meilleures terres est une réalité au Benin. Pour nous, OPs et OSC, les principes de la Banque Mondiale sont un écran de fumée pour tenter de la légitimer.

  • Women farmers, peasant movements and land grabbers
    • Global Policy Forum
    • 23 April 2010

    On Earth Day plus one, we need to ask: what can stop this speculative juggernaut? And how can we support the rural farm communities – half of our humankind – who are fighting for sustainable food production.

  • Bruxelles : Appel à manifester
    • FUGEA-Info
    • 23 April 2010

    Des paysans et des organisations de la société civile, en Belgique comme ailleurs, demandent à la Banque mondiale de ne pas cautionner l’accaparement des terres

  • Stop land grabbing now!
    • La Via Campesina-FIAN-LRAN-GRAIN
    • 22 April 2010

    The World Bank's principles, which would be entirely voluntary, aim to distract from the fact that today's global food crisis, marked by more than 1 billion people going hungry each day, will not be solved by large scale industrial agriculture, which virtually all of these land acquisitions aim to promote.

  • Pour un arrêt immédiat de l'accaparement de terres !!
    • La Via Campesina-FIAN-LRAN-GRAIN
    • 22 April 2010

    Les principes de la Banque mondiale, qui seraient totalement volontaires, visent à détourner notre attention du fait que la crise alimentaire actuelle, marquée par un milliard de personnes en manque de nourriture, ne sera pas resolue par l'agriculture industrielle à grande échelle, ce que toutes ces acquisitions foncières cherchent à promouvoir.

  • ¡¡Detengamos de inmediato el acaparamiento de tierras!!
    • La Via Campesina-FIAN-LRAN-GRAIN
    • 22 April 2010

    Los principios del BM, que serían totalmente voluntarios, intentan distraer del hecho de que la crisis alimentaria global de hoy en día con la cifra récord de más de mil millones de personas sufriendo hambre, no será resuelta por la agricultura industrial a gran escala que van a aplicar prácticamente todos los inversionistas que están adquiriendo tierra.

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