Brazil

Brasil: Em carta ao Senado, bispos da Amazônia pedem a retirada de tramitação do PL da Grilagem
- CIMI
- 04 May 2021
A nota pública assinada por mais de 60 bispos da região afirma que medida terá maior impacto na Amazônia
Understand FIAgro – The new agribusiness-related investment fund accessible to foreign investors
- FLA
- 04 May 2021
A new type of investment fund was created by Brazil's Congress which may be used for acquisition of Brazilian rural land
Brasil: PL da Grilagem entra em votação no Congresso, avançando os tratores do agronegócio a favor da grilagem de terras
- IHU
- 01 May 2021
PL 510/2021, de autoria do senador Irajá Abreu, favorece a expansão dos latifúndios e facilita a regularização da grilagem de terras públicas.
University of Iowa faculty rebuke farmland investors for fueling land grabs and corporate takeover of agriculture
- ActionAidUSA
- 28 April 2021
The University of Iowa Faculty Senate voted 42 to 7 to pass a resolution calling on the university to hold the financial services provider TIAA accountable for its investments in global farmland.
Desmatamento da Amazônia com Bolsonaro visa a grilagem, aponta dirigente do MST
- MST
- 27 April 2021
Passadas algumas décadas, o solo e o meio ambiente se exaurem e esses latifundiários avançam para fronteira agrícola com esse sistema de extração madeireira-desmatamento-queimada-grilagem.
Three Saturday protests demand TIAA divest from fossil fuels, land grabs
- TIAA Divest!
- 20 April 2021
The TIAA-Divest! campaign demands that TIAA "stop land grabs," as TIAA is one of the two largest foreign buyers in Brazil and many of its landholdings lead to displacement of local communities and deforestation.
New palm oil frontier sparks scramble for land in the Brazilian Amazon
- Mongabay
- 12 April 2021
Cultivation of oil palm has surged in Brazil’s northern state of Roraima over the last decade, fueled by an ambitious push towards biofuels. While palm oil companies claim they do not deforest, critics say they are contributing to a surge in demand for cleared land in this region, driving cattle ranchers, soy farmers and land speculators deeper into the forest.
La agroindustria rodea el territorio indígena Xingu en Brasil
- IPS
- 09 April 2021
Los habitantes de las tierras indígenas de Baú, Menkragnoti y Panará dicen que la pavimentación de la carretera ha creado todo tipo de problemas, impulsando el acaparamiento de tierras, la deforestación y los incendios forestales en la parte norte de la cuenca del Xingu.
Brasil: El monocultivo de soja en el Cerrado de MATOPIBA y sus consecuencias ambientales
- Red por una América Latina Libre de Transgénicos
- 30 Mar 2021
"Necesitamos cuestionar esta idea de que la transformación de un ecosistema rico y diverso en monocultivos de exportación trae desarrollo", señala Gabriela Russo Lopes, investigadora de DW Brasil, de la Universidad de Ámsterdam.
Key Cerrado deforesters in 2020 linked to the clearing of more than 110,000 hectares
- CRR
- 30 Mar 2021
A new report by Chain Reaction Research presents data on specific actors linked to Cerrado deforestation in 2020, including the quantified risk exposure of the largest soy traders, meatpackers, and retailers.
Stop TIAA’s corporate investment in land grabs that foster displacement and threaten biological and ecological destruction.
- PSC-CUNY
- 23 Mar 2021
Resolution adopted by the Professional Staff Congress, a union that represents 30,000 faculty and staff at the City University of New York and the CUNY Research Foundation.
University assembly resolution to encourage TIAA divestment from fossil fuels
- Cornell Daily Sun
- 21 Mar 2021
Resolution by Cornell's University Assembly also calls on its main pension fund supplier to divest from agribusiness companies associated with deforestation, indigenous rights violations, and severe climate impacts.