{"id":4284,"date":"2014-10-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourlandourbusiness.org\/global-activists-to-protest-world-bank-policies-leading-to-land-grabs-and-displacement-of-small-farmers\/"},"modified":"2014-10-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T00:00:00","slug":"global-activists-to-protest-world-bank-policies-leading-to-land-grabs-and-displacement-of-small-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlandourbusiness.org\/es\/global-activists-to-protest-world-bank-policies-leading-to-land-grabs-and-displacement-of-small-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Activists To Protest World Bank Policies Leading To Land Grabs and Displacement Of Small Farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"l-subsection\"><div class=\"l-subsection-h\"><div class=\"l-subsection-hh g-html i-cf\"><p>Source: Black Star News<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"date-display-single\" property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2014-10-06T00:00:00-07:00\">October 6, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On October 10, 2014, NGOs, farmers&#8217; groups, and indigenous  organizations from across the world are coming together as part of the  Our Land Our Business campaign to denounce the World Bank&#8217;s Doing  Business rankings.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign, endorsed by over 235 organizations, will be staging\u00a0  &#8220;creative resistance&#8221; events at the Bank\u2019s annual meetings in Washington  D.C. and nine other cities around the world. The D.C. event is drawing  support from a wide range of activist communities, including Occupy  groups who will join representatives of impacted communities from Kenya,  Mali, and Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder the banner #WorldVsBank, this movement is calling for the end  of the Doing Business rankings and the new Benchmarking the Business of  Agriculture project,&#8221; said Alnoor Ladha of The Rules. &#8220;They are tools of  a pro-corporate, anti-poor, environmentally unsustainable model of  development. If the World Bank keeps promoting economic activity that  destroys biodiversity and the livelihoods of smallholder farmers,  pastoralists, and indigenous communities, they should not have a mandate  to exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The World Bank\u2019s lending to developing countries reached $35 billion  in 2012. The Doing Business rankings play a critical role in determining  what form of economic development takes place around the world.  According to the World Bank\u2019s own literature, they are \u201can incomparable  catalyst for business reforms initiatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In practice, this has meant liberalizing developing country economies  so that large-scale land investment and western corporations can move  in unimpeded. The casualties are the smallholder famers and providers  who currently feed 80% of the developing world but who are all too often  rendered invisible or actively dispossessed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorking for the World Bank\u2019s Social Fund in Gambella, I protested  the widespread coercion and forced relocation of people. Today I live in  political exile in Kenya. I am protesting the World Bank on October 10  because I know firsthand how their policies negatively impact  communities,\u201d said Okok Ojulu who will share his experiences at actions  planned in D.C.<\/p>\n<p>To coincide with the #WorldVsBank mobilization, the Oakland  Institute, one of the world\u2019s leading think tanks on land issues, is  releasing a new study tackling the Bank&#8217;s approach to land, agriculture,  and development, Unfolding Truth: Dismantling the World Bank&#8217;s Myths on  Agriculture and Development. In addition, the Institute will also  release six new country fact sheets that expose the reforms promoted by  the World Bank in Kenya, Uganda, DRC, Laos, Cambodia, and Uruguay. In  each country, the Bank\u2019s policies have served as a catalyst for massive  land grabs, dispossession, and forced eviction of countless small-scale  farmers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look behind many of the recent land grabs, you will find  World Bank policies that enable investors to come in with projects that  promise benefits to communities but don\u2019t follow through,&#8221; said Anuradha  Mittal of the Oakland Institute. &#8220;We can keep going after each  corporation and investment group but it would be more effective if the  World Bank stopped using their immense political and financial power to  pave the way for what has become the systematic exploitation of land and  people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our Land Our Business is also launching the world&#8217;s first  transnational \u201cmissed call\u201d campaign&#8211;uniting a call-to-action across  multiple countries. The idea is to make a call to a local phone number;  the mobile number is then registered as an expression of support, then  supporters receive free text messages to get further involved (e.g.  showing up at a creative resistance). In parts of the world where  first-generation mobile phones are ubiquitous but computers and the  Internet are costly and inaccessible, this is a new powerful tool for  mass engagement in political action.<\/p>\n<p>On October 10, a street mobilization featuring speakers and artists  will take place at 4pm in Rawlins Park, Washington D.C. This is followed  by further action on October 11 when activists and concerned citizens  from around the world will again gather outside the World Bank at 11am  to protest the Bank&#8217;s attempt to dismantle critical protections for  people and the planet that are currently enshrined in its operational  policies.<\/p>\n<p>These changes come at a time when the Bank is making plans to scale  up its lending to the private sector and return to the sort of risky  mega-projects that characterized its now-discredited structural  adjustment programs in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>The October 10 &#8211; 11 actions send a message to the Bank that the world won&#8217;t stand for its exploitive practices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackstarnews.com\/us-politics\/justice\/global-activists-to-protest-world-bank-policies-leading-to-land-grabs-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View Full Article at Black Star News <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Black Star News October 6, 2014 On October 10, 2014, NGOs, farmers&#8217; groups, and indigenous organizations from across the world are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-coverage"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.11 - 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