Protest Against Land-Grabbers' London Summit

[Tony Gosling]

Protest against Land-Grab Investors Summit
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/06/497575.html

anon at indymedia.org (Stop Global Land Grabs!) | 30.06.2012 10:55

On Tuesday 26th June, a group of people from 
environmental, development and farming groups 
joined together to denounce land grabs outside an 
international agricultural investors conference 
in London. Organisers of the £3,660-a-head 
conference call farmland “one of the greatest 
investments in the world” and bill the summit as 
an opportunity to “overcome the perceived 
obstacles to investment” with titles of talks 
such as “Agriculture in Africa: ‘land grab’ or untapped opportunity?”

An Investors meeting at this week’s Agricultural 
Investment Summit in London got a clear message 
from protestors gathered outside – land is for people, not for profit!

Organisers of the £3,660-a-head conference call 
farmland “one of the greatest investments in the 
world” and bill the summit as an opportunity to 
“overcome the perceived obstacles to investment” 
with titles of talks such as “Agriculture in 
Africa: ‘land grab’ or untapped opportunity?”
Conference URL Ref:  http://www.terrapinn.com/2012/agri/

Protestors voiced their opinions on the pavement 
outside the Victoria Park Hotel, near Victoria 
Station where inside delegates were enjoying a 
networking and drinks reception at the end of the 
day's sessions late afternoon Tuesday (the first day of the 3 day-event).

The protestors say that City investors and 
pension funds are taking land from countries and 
vulnerable communities who need it to grow food, 
with the increasing spread of land grab 
investments buying up agricultural/forestry land 
and land for prospective mining in developing 
countries worldwide such as across Africa, Latin 
America and the Indonesian archipelago by 
financial players such as pension funds.

The summit organisers, backed by the WTO, the 
World Bank and a host of financial institutions, 
describe their land grabs as an ‘emerging and 
expanding asset class’, and bill the summit as an 
opportunity to ‘overcome the perceived obstacles 
to investment’. It is time that we stand up in 
solidarity with those who loose their land and 
make it known that pension fund investors in 
London’s square mile are key players in this ‘global industry’.

Through land grabs a few powerful corporations 
are increasing their control over food and energy 
production, natural resource extraction and the 
lives of small-scale farmers across the world. 
Invariably land grabs lead to the eviction and 
displacement of local communities and increased 
poverty as rural communities are forced away from 
the land that they rely on and into the capitalist labour market.

Nyikaw Ochalla of the Anuak people from Ethiopia 
whose livelihoods are threatened by the land 
grabs of foreign companies. “Africa, Asia and 
Latin America are seeing an acceleration of land 
grabbing at a rate not seen since colonial times.”

The protestors will be demonstrating against the 
summit and have released a statement, signed by 
over 60 European and international organisations, 
calling for pension funds and other financial 
institutions to stop land grabbing.

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