Brazil

Harvard’s investment in land and natural resources
- Harvard Crimson
- 14 May 2019
Harvard University has been grabbing lands from indigenous communities, cutting down forests, and depriving rural people of access to water around the world for years.
Brasil: Mapa das Terras dos Parlamentares mostra que eles acumulam fazendas na Amazônia e no Matopiba
- De Olho nos Ruralistas
- 12 May 2019
De Olho nos Ruralistas elaborou mapa que localiza, por município, as propriedades rurais declaradas por deputados e senadores; primeira reportagem de série sobre bancada ruralista aponta latifúndios de congressistas nas fronteiras agrícolas.
Masiva privatización de las tierras públicas y los territorios colectivos en Brasil
- GRAIN
- 09 May 2019
La aprobación del nuevo Código de Bosques en 2012 y, después, de la Ley 13.465/17 que modifica cerca de 26 marcos legales sobre la tierra en Brasil, llamada (“Ley del grilagem” o “Ley de acaparamiento”), instrumentan una regularización ambiental y agraria como mecanismos de apropiación masiva de tierras públicas y “devueltas”
Des milliers d'indigènes revendiquent leurs droits à Brasilia
- AFP
- 25 April 2019
Plusieurs milliers de représentants de tribus autochtones du Brésil étaient rassemblés mercredi en plein coeur de Brasilia, déterminés à faire valoir leur droit à la terre face à un gouvernement Bolsonaro ouvertement hostile.
Stopping colleges’ land grabs: Farmers and faculties unite
- Grassroots International
- 24 April 2019
Grassroots International is supporting partners and allies in a global campaign to stop violent and illegal land grabs at their source: the massive financial investments of pension funds and college endowments.
Tacuara'i indigenous people facing landlessness in Paraguay
- OpenDemocracy
- 23 April 2019
The acquisition—both legally and illegally—of enormous amounts of terrain by a small number of groups has left Paraguay with the highest level of inequality of land ownership in the world.
Successive land attacks stoke fear in Brazil's Amazon
- Al Jazeera
- 12 April 2019
At least six people have been killed in a series of deadly Amazon land conflicts in Brazil, stoking fears of rising violence in the region under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.
Indigenous groups warn of 'apocalypse' with Brazil's Bolsonaro
- France24
- 10 April 2019
Brazil's Alliance of Indigenous Peoples warned about President Bolsonaro's pledges to allow more farming and logging in the Amazon, and called on the EU to put pressure by refusing import of Brazil's agricultural products unless guaranteed that it's not comes from native lands or violated indigenous people's rights.
Brazil’s key deforestation drivers: Pasture, cropland, land speculation
- Mongabay
- 20 Mar 2019
Brazilian deforestation is most highly driven by land speculation, whereby land speculators deforest an area, possibly selling off the timber, then convert the land to pasture, and then again quickly sell the land to a soy producer at a much increased price.
The rebirth of Harvard's divestment movement
- The Crimson
- 14 February 2019
A three-day campaign called “Land Under Siege,” consisting of a teach-in, a Mass. Hall rally and an organiser training event, was organized by Harvard Undergraduates for Environmental Justice.
Le gouvernement brésilien va-t-il en finir avec la loi sur la propriété terrienne ?
- DIalogo Chino
- 22 January 2019
Les pressions pour ouvrir le marché foncier au Brésil proviennent principalement de Chine.
Brazilian government split on land ownership law
- Dialogo Chino
- 22 January 2019
Environmentalists and communities fear the consequences of changing 2010 foreign ownership regulations on farmland.