Brazil

Investors describe it as one of the last frontiers for major agricultural expansion - a vast area in Brazil's poor northeast that the government is eager to open up to investors hoping to set up big new soy farms and cattle ranches.

The testimony says former chief executive of Petrobras, Phillipe Reichstul helped direct funds from Petrobras operations into the ethanol start-up group Brenco, which was created in 2006 and had investors that included Vinod Khosla, Steve Case and Tarpon Investments.

Financial investors own tracts that grow maize and soya beans in Illinois and Uruguay, almonds and cattle in Australia, and sugar beets and wheat in Poland. Some are venturing into countries with potentially volatile politics, such as Ethiopia and Ukraine.

Loro Horta reports on recent Chinese overseas investment in agriculture in the Lusophone world

While we welcome the Financial Times' mention of our report on TIAA’s investments in Brazil, we are disappointed that the article quotes from an email by TIAA dismissing the allegations in our report as “inaccurate and without merit” without providing grounds for such claims.

A new Open Access Special Issue in World Development based on our work on the changing role of China and Brazil in Africa’s agriculture is now available

Nós, organizações da sociedade civil e movimentos sociais articulados na Campanha Não ao Prosavana, denunciamos o actual envolvimento da WWF no Prosavana.

"Nós, organizações da sociedade civil e movimentos sociais articulados na Campanha Não ao Prosavana, denunciamos o actual envolvimento da WWF no Prosavana".

We, organisations of civil society and social movements allied in the No to ProSavana Campaign, denounce the current involvement of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in ProSavana.

Discutir projetos de lei colonialistas, num país cujas terras estão sendo mantidas e exploradas pela sonegação de impostos é um crime de lesa-pátria.

No espaço de uma semana, uma equipe de pesquisadores internacionais coordenada pelo Prof. Dr. Bernardo Mançano Fernandes - Cátedra UNESCO de Educação e Desenvolvimento Territorial - realizou um programa que visa a dinâmica da internacionalização e aquisição de terras em larga escala.

A Campanha Não ao Prosavana convida e apela a todos os movimentos para ampla mobilização, engajamento e organização de uma frente comum de resistência ao ProSavana.