The World Bank in the Hot Seat Over Land Grabbing http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/05/07-0A curious thing happened last week. A lot of people were under the impression that the World Bank was going to release its long-awaited study on global land grabs at its annual land conference in Washington DC on 26 April 2010. This is what GRAIN was told. It's what many journalists were told. And it's what those involved in producing the study expected. But it didn't happen.
Environmental impact assessments are rarely carried out, and people are routinely booted off their land, without consultation or compensation.
The Bank even revealed that investors are deliberately targeting areas where there is "weak land governance". (photo by Flickr user afromusing)Instead, the Bank gave another powerpoint presentation summarising what the study will show, reiterated its proposed seven principles for "socially responsible" land grabs and unveiled its new business-to-business website -- a kind of internet dating service to match up corporate land grabbers and government land givers.
comment-also see..REDD: Seeing the forest for the trees http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/64056 AUDIO-Dangerous initiative by the World Bank to control land grabbing http://www.radiomundoreal.fm/Unbelievable?lang=es
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It is a shame that the greeners want to succeed so badly that they just try to stop everything they do not like so that what they "think" , without study, will be the total answer. Greeners, we know you do not like American farmers but let us explain that they know what to do and what not to do with farmland. The farmland being used for biofuel will become useless. Farmland cannot be used over and over and over for one product at such a fast rate...land must grow but at nature's tune..and often the products to grow much change from season to season. So please stop the landgrabbing, deforestation and global farming...we know you do not like oil...but until a better solution is found...please safe land from global farming...agribusiness such as Louis Dreyfus Group and Cargill...they are taking advantage of what the greeners are trying to do....and using their global farming for green "gold."
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