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How Agri-Business Corporations Influence UN Institutions

Source: IDN-InDepthNews February 16, 2020 SAN FRANCISCO (IDN) – As Dr. Agnes Kalibata arrived in Rome on February 10, 2020 to meet…

Call to Revoke AGRA’s Agnes Kalibata as Special Envoy to 2021 UN Food Systems Summit

February 10, 2020 António Guterres Secretary-General, United Nations New York, NY USA Call to Revoke AGRA’s Agnes Kalibata as Special Envoy to…

Emperor Has No New Clothes

Reformed World Bank Program Still Fails the Farmers In 2013, the World Bank launched the Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) project,…

World Bank, IMF and EBRD push for controversial land reform in Ukraine

Source: Bretton Woods Project December 12, 2019 A November article on news site Common Dreams analysed a bill that became a draft…

A Major Victory for Land Rights Defenders

By The Oakland Institute. Anuradha Mittal, its Executive Director, is an Honorary member of the ICCA Consortium. Large-scale land acquisitions by private interests…

Ukraine, the Land of Quid Pro Quos

By Frederic Mousseau and Elena Teare The withholding of US$391 million in military aid to force the Ukrainian government to investigate the…

Mass Dispossession Through the Commodification of Land

Source: Amandla African News Weekly June 26, 2019 Under a new scheme, the World Bank seems intent on dismantling customary land laws…

The World Bank is driving a failed strategy in the DRC

Source: The Africa Report April 23, 2019 In the DRC, the Bukanga Lonzo Debacle shows that agro-industrial parks are a false solution…

World Bank Dispossessing Rural Poor

Source: IPS April 18, 2019 KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Apr 18 2019 (IPS) – The World Bank’s Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) project, launched…

Danida

DANIDA’S PRO-CORPORATE AID HARMS SMALLHOLDER FARMERS Denmark’s international development agency, Danida, claims there is a win-win intersection between development and business goals…

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