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Oxfam urges freeze of land investments

3 October 2012
Reuters
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease
developing countries / Development / development aid / foreign aid / Foreign Donors / foreign investors / global development group / Human Rights / International Finance Corp / Land grabs / Land issues / nternational Monetary Fund / Oxfam / transparency / World Bank

Global development group Oxfam on Wednesday called on the World Bank to suspend financing for large-scale land acquisitions to ensure that its practices do not encourage foreign land grabs in developing countries. Oxfam urged Jim Yong Kim, the lender's new president, to announce a six-month moratorium ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/04/worldbank-oxfam-land-idUSL1E8L2LKF20121004

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