Brazil

The Brazilian State prosecutor for Pernambuco announced last week that the Federal Public Ministry will launch an investigation into delays in resolving one of the cases highlighted in Oxfam's report.

La casa comercial japonesa Sojitz informó hoy que ha decidido invertir en la brasileña Cantagalo, empresa agrícola y recolectora de grano, y su subsidiaria CGG, de cara a potenciar sus exportaciones de productos alimentarios a Asia.

Tokyo-based Sojitz says it will invest in Brazil's Cantagalo General Grains SA, which farms 150,000 hectares and collects 2 million metric tons of grains a year.

Uma das figuras centrais do movimento "sem-terra" brasileiro, Augusto Juncal, esteve em Maputo como "reforço de peso" da campanha dos camponeses moçambicanos contra o ProSAVANA.

"Os investidores prometem criar empregos locais e dizem que o uso de tecnologia vai melhorar a segurança alimentar. Mas poucos desses benefícios se materializam"

Los derechos sobre la tierra y las cadenas de suministro de las mayores empresas de alimentación y bebidas.

Groups say proponents of large-scale agribusiness project are using manipulative and intimidating actions to divide, compartmentalise and weaken Mozambican civil society.

We, civil society organizations in Japan, call on the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), for the immediate suspension and fundamental review of the ProSAVANA program.

日本・ブラジル・モザンビーク政府の大規模農業開発事業「ProSAVANA-JBM」に関する緊急声明〜事業の早急なる中断と抜本的な見直しの要請〜

Brazil has authorized the sale of farmland to foreigners for the first time since 2010, when the country's attorney general imposed limits on foreign land control in one of the world's top producers of agricultural commodities.

In the last two decades, the best agricultural lands in Bolivia have been put into commercial production by large-scale producers closely linked to foreign investors, particularly Brazilians.

A publicação apresenta uma análise dos dados e consequências do programa ProSavana, que busca implantar o agronegócio no Norte do país africano, através de um acordo de cooperação triangular entre Brasil, Japão e Moçambique.