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Banking on Seeds: World Bank Sides with Agribusinesses Against Farmers’ Rights to Seeds

Around the world, farmers’ rights to seeds are imperilled by industry-pushed reforms to curtail the freedom to save, reuse, exchange, and sell…

Calling on the World Bank to End the Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA)

January 18, 2017 Dear Dr. Jim Yong Kim, We are writing today to urge you to put an end to the Enabling…

Five Western Donors Shape a Corporate Agenda for African Agriculture

Media Contact: Anuradha Mittal, Oakland Institute amittal@oaklandinstitute.org, + 1 510 469-5228 Oakland, CA—The Unholy Alliance, Five Western Donors Shape a Pro-Corporate Agenda…

Civil Society Comes Together in Latin America to Challenge the World Bank’s Annual Meetings

Civil society organizations, Indigenous communities, and social movements come together to challenge the World Bank’s neoliberal agenda, which has caused massive environmental…

CIVIL SOCIETY ASKS 3 CRITICAL QUESTIONS OF THE WORLD BANK AT ITS 2015 SPRING MEETINGS

#OLOB | www.ourlandourbus.wpengine.com Contact: Anuradha Mittal, amittal@oaklandinstitute.org, +1 510-469-5228 Alnoor Ladha, Alnoor@therules.org, +27 60 853 9810 Joseph Rahall, jorahall@yahoo.com, +232 76 601979  …

Civil Society Denounces World Bank’s Conference on Land & Poverty

Farmer organizations, indigenous groups, trade unions and other civil society organizations, under the umbrella of Our Land Our Business, call World Bank’s…

The World Bank’s Sham Conference on Land and Poverty

The World Bank’s Sham Conference on Land and Poverty Friday, February 13, 2015 Every year for the last fifteen years, the World…

Groups demand the U.S. Executive Director of the World Bank to Act to Phase Out Business Indicators

Tuesday, February 3, 2015. Contact: Anuradha Mittal, +1 510-469-5228, amittal@oaklandinstitute.org Aldo Caliari, +1 202-635-2757 x 134, acaliari@coc.org Groups demand the U.S. Executive Director…

On 1st December 2014 the Our Land, Our Business campaign sent the following open letter to The World Bank

Oakland, December 1, 2014 World Bank, Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) Project Team Cc. Federica Saliola, Program Manager, World Bank Global…

Civil Society Rejects the World Bank’s 2015 Doing Business Rankings

Civil Society Rejects the World Bank’s 2015 Doing Business Rankings World Bank’s Rankings Denounced as an Illegitimate Report Card October 28, 2014…

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