{"id":4191,"date":"2017-01-19T21:52:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T21:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourlandourbusiness.org\/call-to-the-world-bank-enable-farmers-not-agribusiness\/"},"modified":"2019-10-25T17:44:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T17:44:11","slug":"call-to-the-world-bank-enable-farmers-not-agribusiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlandourbusiness.org\/es\/call-to-the-world-bank-enable-farmers-not-agribusiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Call to the World Bank: Enable Farmers, Not Agribusiness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Source: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy<\/p>\n

January 19, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tShiney Varghese\n\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAhead World Bank\u2019s release of the 2017 \u201cEnabling the Business of Agriculture<\/a>\u201d (EBA) project report this month, 156 organizations (including IATP) and academics from around the world, denounced the Bank\u2019s scheme to undermine farmers\u2019 rights to seeds and destroy their food sovereignty and the environment. In letters to World Bank President Jim Yong Kim<\/a> and EBA\u2019s five Western donors<\/a>, the group has demanded the immediate end of the project, as a key step to stop the corporatization of global agricultural development.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe Obama administration played a lead role in launching the highly controversial<\/a> New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition<\/em> at the 2012 G8 Camp David Summit. From the White House fact sheet<\/a>, G-8 Action on Food Security and Nutrition<\/em>\u2019<\/em>, it appears that the New Alliance was instrumental in urging the World Bank to develop options for generating a \u201cDoing Business in Agriculture Index<\/a>.\u201d The index involved a ranking of the ease of doing business in a country, to help investors with agricultural investment decisions. This G8\/New Alliance initiative appears to have given rise to Enabling the Business of Agriculture<\/em> project, formerly called Benchmarking the Business of Agriculture. EBA focuses on identifying and monitoring regulations\u201d which the Bank considers to \u201cnegatively affect agriculture and agribusiness markets\u201d.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWhen taken together with other initiatives that seek to lower the barriers to investment, EBA becomes a problematic initiative. This is especially so in the context of small-holder food production systems, since such approaches often exclude a long-term view about the future of smallholder farming communities, and the interests of those engaged in such food systems. For example, the EBA awards the best scores<\/a> to countries that ease private companies\u2019 \u2013 but not farmers\u2019 \u2013 access to public gene banks.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn Down On the Seed, the World Bank Enables Corporate Takeover of Seeds<\/em><\/a>, the Oakland Institute\u2019s Alice Martin-Prevel argues that while the World Bank claims to promote \u201csmart and balanced policies,\u201d its EBA index blatantly ignores farmer-managed seed systems. Instead, it reinforces the stranglehold of agrochemical companies and western nations by pushing for intellectual property rights in seeds, g seeds, germplasm, and plant varieties, so that private breeders profit from the use of their seeds by farmers.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

View Full Article at Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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