The World Bank's 'Tropical Forest Action Plan' was an abject failure, writes Chris Lang. Now the same mistakes are being repeated under a new acronym. TFAP is out, REDD is in - but it's still all about corporate control of forests, and blaming deforestation on its victims.
… the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Bank unveiled their $8 … of the agriculture and logging sectors as the FAO and World Bank's failed Tropical Forestry …
Across Africa, laws are being rewritten to open farming up to an agribusiness invasion - displacing the millions of small cultivators that now feed the continent, and replacing them with a new model of profit-oriented agriculture using patented seeds and varieties. The agencies effecting the transformation are legion - but they are all marching to a single drum.
… Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the G8, the African Union, the Bill … Investment ' drawn up by the World Bank, FAO, IFAD and UN Conference on Trade and …
USAID, the UK's DFID and the World Bank are among those covering up for severe human rights abuses against indigenous peoples in Ethiopia's Omo Valley, inflicted during forced evictions to make way for huge plantations, writes Will Hurd. Their complicity in these crimes appears to be rooted in US and UK partnership with Ethiopia in the 'war on terror'.
… Belgium, Canada, Denmark, European Union, FAO, Finland, France, Germany, IMF, India, …