{"id":4320,"date":"2014-03-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourlandourbusiness.org\/world-bank-destroys-traditional-farming-to-support-gmo-corporate-land-theft\/"},"modified":"2014-03-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T00:00:00","slug":"world-bank-destroys-traditional-farming-to-support-gmo-corporate-land-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlandourbusiness.org\/es\/world-bank-destroys-traditional-farming-to-support-gmo-corporate-land-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"World Bank Destroys Traditional Farming to Support GMO Corporate Land Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"l-subsection\"><div class=\"l-subsection-h\"><div class=\"l-subsection-hh g-html i-cf\"><p>Source: Health Impact News Daily<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"date-display-single\" property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2014-03-31T00:00:00-07:00\">March 31, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p>OAKLAND, Calif. (March 31) \u2013\u00a0Today, the Oakland Institute and \/The Rules, along with other NGOs, farmer and consumer organizations from around the world\u00a0launch a campaign,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oaklandinstitute.org\/our-land-our-business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Our Land Our Business<\/a>, 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\u2013farmers, pastoralists, and indigenous communities, many of whom are essential food producers for the entire planet.<\/p>\n<p>\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<p>\u201cSmallholder farmers and herders are currently feeding 80 percent 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<p>The Bank\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oaklandinstitute.org\/our-land-our-business\">\u201cDoing Business\u201d rankings<\/a>, 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<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oaklandinstitute.org\/press-release-world-bank-accused-destroying-traditional-farming-support-corporate-land-grabs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oaklandinstitute.org\/press-release-world-bank-accused-destroying-traditional-farming-support-corporate-land-grabs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/healthimpactnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Liberia_cover.jpg\" alt=\"Liberia cover World Bank Destroys Traditional Farming to Support GMO Corporate Land Theft\" title=\"World Bank Destroys Traditional Farming to Support GMO Corporate Land Theft\" width=\"231\" height=\"301\" style=\"float: right;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the agricultural sector, the rankings encourage governments to commoditize their land\u2013and to sell or lease it to foreign investors, regardless of environmental or social impact. Smallholder farmers, pastoralists, and indigenous people\u00a0are casualties of this approach, as governments and foreign corporations work hand-in-hand to dispossess them of their land\u2013and gain World Bank approval in the process.<\/p>\n<p>The results have already been devastating. Thanks to reforms and policies guided by the Bank,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oaklandinstitute.org\/world-banks-bad-business-sierra-leone\">Sierra Leone<\/a>\u00a0has taken 20 percent of its arable land from rural populations and leased it to foreign sugar cane and palm oil producers. And in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oaklandinstitute.org\/world-banks-bad-business-liberia\">Liberia<\/a>, 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<p>Now the land\u00a0grab 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<p>\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\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oaklandinstitute.org\/our-land-our-business\">\u2018Doing Business\u2019 rankings<\/a>\u00a0encourage governments to steal from the poor in order to give to the rich. That must end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information or to schedule an interview with Anuradha Mittal and Alnoor Ladha, please contact Kristen Thomaselli at (202) 471-4228 ext. 101 or\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:kristen@keybridge.biz\">kristen@keybridge.biz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To read the report,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oaklandinstitute.org\/willful-blindness-how-world-banks-doing-business-rankings-impoverish-smallholder-farmers\">Willful Blindness:\u00a0How the World Bank\u2019s Doing Business (DB) Rankings Impoverish Smallholder Farmers<\/a>,\u00a0as well as country fact sheets about the World Bank\u2019s bad business in the developing world, please visit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oaklandinstitute.org\/our-land-our-business\">www.oaklandinstitute.org\/our-land-our-business<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full release here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oaklandinstitute.org\/press-release-world-bank-accused-destroying-traditional-farming-support-corporate-land-grabs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.oaklandinstitute.org\/press-release-world-bank-accused-destroying-traditional-farming-support-corporate-land-grabs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/healthimpactnews.com\/2014\/world-bank-destroys-traditional-farming-to-support-gmo-corporate-land-theft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View Full Article at Health Impact News Daily <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Health Impact News Daily March 31, 2014 OAKLAND, Calif. 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