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World Bank: Stealing Africa's future

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To Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank:

Land is life to farming communities around the world, but a global land grab is threatening to destroy families now and hold their countries’ futures to ransom. The World Bank already has strong evidence that funding large land deals often makes life worse for the people displaced and fails to generate poverty reduction. Twice the Bank has acted to halt lending to specific sectors or countries. Now it is time for a full freeze on land grab funding. We call on you to act urgently to end the sell-off of the world's land to private companies and reallocate World Bank funds to projects that really do eradicate poverty.
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World Bank: Stealing Africa's future
Private companies are buying up huge chunks of Africa, snapping up an area as big as Western Europe in just the last few years. In 6 days we can act to bring an end to this global land grab.

These land deals steal Africa's future. Corrupt or weak governments enable big investors to evict rightful landowners, land often lies idle, and many displaced communities lose their access to food and water. Public institutions, notably the World Bank, are at the heart of many such deals, and stopping them could set the stage for a freeze on all land grabs.

The World Bank's new president has devoted his life to defeating poverty and next week he makes his global debut at the annual Bank meeting. This is our best chance to get the Bank to take a strong stand against the land robbery. Click to sign, then forward this to your friends. Our massive call will be hand delivered to senior Bank officials at the meeting.

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