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World Bank Accused of Destroying Traditional Farming to Support Corporate Land Grabs<\/h2>\n

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EMBARGOED March 31,<\/sup> 2014, 10 am EDT<\/p>\n

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OAKLAND, Calif. (March 31) \u2014 <\/b>Today, the Oakland Institute and \/The Rules, along with other NGOs, farmer and consumer organizations from around the world launch a campaign, Our Land Our Business<\/b>, to hold the World Bank accountable for its role in the rampant theft of land and resources from some of the world\u2019s poorest people \u2014 farmers, pastoralists and indigenous communities, many of whom are essential food producers for the entire planet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe World Bank is facilitating land grabs and sowing poverty by putting the interests of foreign investors before those of locals,\u201d said Anuradha Mittal, Executive Director of the Oakland Institute.<\/p>\n

\u201cSmall holder farmers and herders are currently feeding 80 per cent of the developing world. Casting them aside in favor of industrial farming corporations from the West betrays the World Bank\u2019s reckless and short term approach to development,\u201d said Alnoor Ladha, Executive Director of \/The Rules.<\/p>\n

The Bank\u2019s \u201cDoing Business\u201d rankings, which score countries according to how Washington officials perceive the \u201cease of doing business\u201d there, have caused many developing-country leaders to deregulate their economies in hopes of attracting foreign investment. But what the World Bank considers beneficial for foreign business is very often the exact opposite for existing farmers and herders.<\/p>\n

In the agricultural sector, the rankings encourage governments to commoditize their land \u2014 and to sell or lease it to foreign investors, regardless of environmental or social impact. Smallholder farmers, pastoralists, and the indigenous peoples are casualties of this approach, as governments and foreign corporations work hand-in-hand to dispossess them of their land \u2014 and gain World Bank approval in the process.<\/p>\n

The results have already been devastating. Thanks to reforms and policies guided by the Bank, Sierra Leone has taken 20 percent of its arable land from rural populations and leased it to foreign sugar cane and palm oil producers. And in Liberia, British, Malaysian, and Indonesian palm-oil giants have secured long-term leases for over 1.5 million acres of land formerly held by local communities.<\/p>\n

Now the land-grab problem is about to get worse. Under pressure from the G8 and with funding from the Gates Foundation, the Bank is doubling down on its rankings fetish by introducing a new program called \u201cBenchmarking the Business of Agriculture\u201d (BBA). The BBA\u2019s explicit goal is to promote \u201cthe emergence of a stronger commercial agriculture sector.\u201d Its rankings will prize deregulation of the agriculture sector and is expected to enable further land grabbing around the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re standing up with farmers, herders, and indigenous peoples of the developing world who are being steamrolled by the World Bank\u2019s pro-corporate agenda,\u201d added Mittal. \u201cInitiatives like the World Bank\u2019s \u2018Doing Business\u2019 rankings encourage governments to steal from the poor in order to give to the rich. That must end.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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