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The World Bank s policies for land privatisation and concentration, have paved the way for corporations from Wall Street to Singapore to take upwards of 80 million hectares of land from rural communities across the world in the past few years.

http://bit.ly/I4bMny



Film Exposes the Devastating Impact of World Bank Backing for Land Investments in Uganda

Video

First-hand accounts of how privatisation of land, and corporate-friendly policies promoted by the World Bank lead to violent displacements, hunger and facilitate the global takeover of community land by private interests.

http://bit.ly/JR2z0Q



New age colonialism: West buying up Third World?

Multinational corporations are buying up swathes of land in underdeveloped countries in an unchecked scramble towards new-age colonialism. So-called ''land grabbing'' sees western powers vying for economic control of the developing world s resources.

http://bit.ly/Khlno2


From Information Clearing House

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Predatory Privatization Puts Citizens and Communities at Risk
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/07/31-7



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