The Oakland Institute:  The World Bank’s current strategy still upholds a fundamentally pro-corporate agenda and a neoliberal vision of the economy.  This is notably the case in the agricultural sector, where the Bank strongly advocates for industrial farming and farmers’ integration into the global market. The mantra of “Trade not Aid” has been the driver of foreign direct investment (FDI), portrayed as the silver bullet solution to help developing countries shift to capital- and chemical-intensive farming methods.  Read More…