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The World Bank’s Land Conference: Pro-Poor Bluff to Serve Neo-Colonialism

This March 20, 2017, the World Bank’s 18th Annual Land and Poverty Conference begins, featuring a session where Bank specialists will deliver…

Civil Society Denounces World Bank’s Scheme to Hijack Farmers’ Rights to Seeds

Oakland, CA—Ahead of World Bank’s release of the 2017 “Enabling the Business of Agriculture” (EBA) report this month, 157 organizations and academics…

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…

Sementi Tradizionali Sotto Attacco

Source: Fondazione Nigrizia Onlus January 30, 2017 di Marta Gatti Spinti dal lobbing dei giganti dell’agrochimica, sempre più paesi africani introducono leggi…

Call to the World Bank: Enable Farmers, Not Agribusiness

Source: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy January 19, 2017 Shiney Varghese Ahead World Bank’s release of the 2017 “Enabling the Business…

World Bank Aims to Hand Over Seed Industry to Agribusiness

Source: teleSUR January 18, 2017 The world seed market currently lies in the hands of only six agribusinesses transnationals. A host of…

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…

Neoliberalism for All: The World Bank’s Doing Business 2017

Alice Martin-Prével, Frederic Mousseau “Equal Opportunity for All” subtitles the annual Doing Business report released last month by the World Bank. The…

Undemocratic and Unsustainable, the World Bank’s Vision for Agricultural Development Harms the Poorest

Alice Martin-Prével As the World Bank’s Annual Meetings get underway in Washington, DC, a crucial theme is noticeably missing from its seminar…

Farms to Plantations: The West’s Corporate Business Plan for Agriculture Across Africa

> Source: This Is Hell! June 15, 2016 Displacing pastoralists, displacing smallholder farmers, arresting and charging them as terrorists if they protest…

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