Audio By Vocalize More than 30 civil society organisations are mounting pressure on the World Bank Group to halt billions of shillings channelled into financing industrial livestock production, warning that the funding is accelerating environmental damage and undermining Africa’s food systems. The call comes amid coordinated protests across 25 countries during the Spring Meetings of the World Bank and its private lending arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC). Activists argue that continued investment in large-scale livestock operations, commonly known as factory farming, is worsening the climate change situation, causing biodiversity loss and creating risks to public health, yet it fails…
