Fornecedora da Cargill, a SLC Agrícola desmatou, em 2020, mais de 5 mil hectares de Cerrado para cultivar soja em Formosa do Rio Preto (BA). A trader estrangeira, maior empresa privada dos EUA, comprometeu-se a barrar a prática em suas cadeias produtivas;
- Mongabay
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14 December 2020
Florestas e populações tradicionais seguem sendo ameaçadas com mais esse estímulo à invasão de terras públicas por criminosos e desmatadores.
TIAA is unusual among financial firms for its aggressive pursuit of farmland, paving the way for financial wealth controlled by companies and individuals to takeover and dispossess rural communities of their farmland.
- NFFC, NAMA, ActionAid
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20 November 2020
New report reveals finance firm TIAA initiated unprecedented global farmland investments under CEO Roger Ferguson Jr., while undermining human rights standards.
- ActionAid & FOE
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20 November 2020
University of Iowa faculty members write that major collegiate employee retirement savings manager must divest from socially irresponsible farming pension fund investments and be transparent in doing so.
- Daily Iowan
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18 November 2020
Mudanças nas legislações estaduais em favor dos latifúndios favorecem apropriação de terras públicas.
- Brasil de fato
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27 October 2020
Georeferencing — a digital mapping technique employed by South American governments to register land ownership — is being regularly used by landgrabbers and companies to expel traditional communities from ancestral lands.
The Matopiba region is home to the majority of the Cerrado’s remaining vegetation, and, conversely, among the highest deforestation and fire rates in Brazil.
Harvard University’s endowment spun off its natural resources team, creating an independent entity that will manage some of the school’s agriculture and food production investments.
- Bloomberg
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08 October 2020
Em setembro, o Tribunal de Justiça da Bahia deu razão à tese de que as terras da fazenda Gleba Campo Largo, no oeste baiano, foram de fato griladas. A propriedade tem sido foco de violentas disputas de terra nos últimos anos.
A real financialisation of land, natural resources and the agri-food system is underway throughout South America. In the context of the multiple global crises, the pressure on the control of land and other resources of interest has increased considerably, either for productive use or as financial assets. To this end, the digitisation of land governance and the georeferencing technology that supports it are serving to disguise a massive digital land grab.
- grain.org
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25 September 2020
No contexto das múltiplas crises globais, a pressão sobre o controle da terra e outros recursos de interesse, como a água, nas zonas de fronteira agrícola aumentou consideravelmente, seja para utilização produtiva ou como ativos financeiros. Para este fim, a digitalização da governação da terra e a tecnologia de georreferenciamento que a apoia estão servindo para dissimular uma massiva grilagem digital das terras.
- grain.org
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25 September 2020