Today (15 April), we’re joining forces with NGOs and campaigners from all corners of the world, calling on the World Bank Group to stop financing factory farms.

Shaping food systems

As part of the Stop Financing Factory Farming coalition, we’re holding a Global Day of Action – spanning over twenty countries – timed to coincide with the World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington, D.C.

This is a major moment for financial institutions, who are making public funding decisions right now that will shape food systems for decades to come.

Funding devastation

The impacts of factory farming on animals, people and the planet are devastating.

Despite this, the World Bank Group continues to invest heavily in intensive animal agriculture. Between 2023 and 2024 alone, it invested $1.4 billion in industrial livestock farming.

What’s more, recent analysis revealed that the World Bank Group's private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation, approved thirty eight industrial livestock projects worth around $2 billion between 2020 and 2025.

Leading the charge

Public money should be funding solutions, not putting our future under threat.

That’s why the Stop Financing Factory Farming coalition is leading the charge in asking the World Bank Group to redirect investment to agroecological, climate-aligned food systems. These can feed the world without exploiting animals and the planet.

Actions on the day will include rallies, demonstrations and creative visual installations exposing the true costs of factory farming. Action is also taking place online, flooding World Bank social media channels with a clear and simple message: it’s time to invest in a better food system.

Be part of the solution

We're calling on the World Bank Group to:

End financing for industrial livestock and factory farming.
Align its investments with climate, biodiversity and public health goals.
Support agroecology and small‑scale producers through public finance.

Add your voice by commenting on the World Bank Group's Facebook page and tell them to stop financing factory farms.

It’s time to stop financing factory farms