On 24 April 2025 the Renevlyn Development Initiative (RDI) delivered a letter to the World Bank Group at its Lagos office urging its executive directors to end industrial animal agriculture financing because of its impact on man, animals and the environment.
The delivery of the letter is one of the action undertaken by activists in different parts of the world as part of global day of action demanding that the World Bank and its private arm – the International Finance Corporation (IFC) stop financing factory farming projects.
RDI position is that the World Bank is owned by governments, including Nigeria and public money is being used to finance factory farms—despite their harmful impacts on climate change, biodiversity, and human rights.
Factory farming is a leading cause of climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and zoonotic disease outbreaks. It also exacerbates gender-based violence, labor exploitation, and social inequality, disproportionately harming women and low-income communities.
The public letter, signed by 250 organizations, academics, and advocates in 14 cities across five continents calls on the World Bank to exclude factory farming from its financing by adopting a formal exclusion policy and for it to commit to phasing out existing projects and redirect financial support instead toward sustainable, high-welfare food systems.
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