Brazil

How your 401(k) is helping destroy the Amazon rainforest
- Intercept
- 23 November 2021
The growing financialisation of Brazilian agribusiness is enabling foreign investment in the industry most responsible for deforestation - and land grabbing
Global commodity traders are fuelling land conflicts in Brazil’s Cerrado
- Global Witness
- 23 November 2021
ADM, Bunge and Cargill are dealing in conflict-tainted soy sourced from producers in the Cerrado, and in doing so are contributing to land conflict and alleged human rights abuses, in violation of their responsibilities under UN and OECD human rights standards.
Indigenous community evicted as land clashes over agribusiness rock Paraguay
- Guardian
- 21 November 2021
Police in riot gear tore down a community’s homes and ripped up crops, highlighting the country’s highly unequal land ownership
Interview with Maria Luisa Mendonça
- Free City Radio
- 17 November 2021
Listen to an interview with Maria Luisa Mendonça of Rede Social on US teachers' pension fund TIAA investments in Brazil land grabbing and deforestation.
Brasil: Carne e soja pressionam a Terra Indígena Karipuna
- CIMI
- 26 October 2021
Aumento de 44% no desmatamento ameaça povo Karipuna e dificulta combate às mudanças climáticas
Top global banks and investors made an estimated $1.74 billion in income since Paris Climate Agreement from deals with agribusinesses linked to destruction of climate-critical forests and human rights abuses
- Global Witness
- 21 October 2021
Big financial institutions rake in profits bankrolling the destruction of the land, homes and livelihoods of communities who have safeguarded their forests for generations
Brasil: Aprovação do marco temporal ‘premiará’ invasores de terras
- IHU
- 20 October 2021
Se a tese do marco temporal for aprovada pelo STF, o território Xokleng e mais de 300 terras indígenas estarão com as demarcações ameaçadas.
Grandes Transacciones de Tierras del noreste Brasileño
- Land Matrix
- 14 October 2021
Se resalta el control de territorios en el Noreste de Brasil con un enfoque especial en la multidimensionalidad del proceso en esta región. Si bien el agronegocio es el foco principal, se instalan y renuevan otras formas de explotación predatoria, siempre con la aprobación y apoyo del Estado.
Invisible hands? European corporations and the deforestation of the Amazon and Cerrado biomes
- ENCO
- 04 October 2021
European firms are involved at different stages of the supply chain of soy, meat and metal – industries which are the main drivers of the deforestation of the Amazon and Cerrado regions in Brazil
Comment des entreprises et banques européennes participent à la destruction des forêts et savanes du Brésil
- Basta
- 04 October 2021
L’Amazonie et la région du Cerrado font face à des destructions dévastatrices pour exporter de la viande et du soja à bas prix. Un rapport inédit pointe la responsabilité des entreprises européennes.
Peuples indigènes : le cri du cœur du cacique Ninawa à Emmanuel Macron
- Ouest France
- 01 October 2021
L'administration Bolsonaro travaille à légaliser et institutionnaliser l’accaparement des territoires des peuples originaires, explique chef brésilien du peuple Huni Kui à Emmanuel Macron
Meet the coalition resisting the global push for land privatization in Brazil
- Waging Nonviolence
- 01 October 2021
A campaign by U.S. and Brazilian activists challenging TIAA and other financial firms’ complicity in land grabs and deforestation in Brazil is scoring major victories.