STOP LAND GRABBING IMMEDIATELY!!

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

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.

Please, send letters to your government requesting it to immediately stop any support to land grabbing and to the World Banks principles. Ask your government to promote the implementation of the final declaration of the International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD) and the recommendations made by the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) instead.