"Recipe for disaster: The IMF and World Bank’s role in the financialisation of food and agriculture"

Past and present World Bank and IMF policies have provided key support for the financialisation of food and agriculture. This has resulted in land-grabs, exposure of small-holder farmers to high price volatility, the concentration of power in agricultural business and the expansion of climate-damaging industrial agriculture. These trends decrease policy space for states in a key area of life and the economy...