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New Urgent Action: Stop Land Grabbing Immediately!

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Do not support the principles of "responsible" agribusiness investment promoted by the World Bank

On April 7th, FIAN has launched a new urgent action on land grabbing, which will end on May 19th. Land grabbing denies land for local communities, destroys livelihoods, reduces the political space for peasant oriented agricultural policies and distorts markets towards increasingly concentrated agribusiness interests and global trade, rather than sustainable peasant agriculture for local and national markets and for future generations. It will also accelerate eco-system destruction and the climate crisis. Therefore, land grabbing violates human rights. Nevertheless, the World Bank, through creating voluntary principles on responsible agricultural investment, tries to avoid the necessary prohibition of land grabbing by creating the illusion that these principles would prevent the disastrous consequences mentioned.

See and participate in the Urgent Action