Brazil

Senado de Brasil vota ley sobre acaparamiento de tierras
- TeleSur
- 08 December 2021
De aprobarse la ley, un área equivalente a Venezuela y Colombia juntas pasará a manos del mercado.
Agribusiness means fire: Land grabs, deforestation and fires in the Amazon, Cerrado and Pantanal biomes
- WRM
- 02 December 2021
WRM Bulletin presents 5 perspectives from a coalition of movements, organizations and social pastoral bodies that have worked for decades in defense of the Amazon, Cerrado and Pantanal biomes and their peoples and communities.
Fundos de aposentadoria nos EUA especulam com a destruição da Amazônia
- The Intercept
- 29 November 2021
A mercantilização da agricultura e as falsas ‘obrigações climáticas’ favorecem investimentos estrangeiros em negócios que desmatam.
Brasil: A boiada está passando: desmatar para grilar
- Agro e Fogo
- 25 November 2021
Ao contrário do uso tradicional, o uso do fogo na cadeia da grilagem-agronegócio ocorre em grandes extensões de terra e está, direta ou indiretamente, associado ao desmatamento que acompanha a expansão da fronteira agrícola.
How your 401(k) is helping destroy the Amazon rainforest
- Intercept
- 23 November 2021
The growing financialisation of Brazilian agribusiness is enabling foreign investment in the industry most responsible for deforestation - and land grabbing
Global commodity traders are fuelling land conflicts in Brazil’s Cerrado
- Global Witness
- 23 November 2021
ADM, Bunge and Cargill are dealing in conflict-tainted soy sourced from producers in the Cerrado, and in doing so are contributing to land conflict and alleged human rights abuses, in violation of their responsibilities under UN and OECD human rights standards.
Indigenous community evicted as land clashes over agribusiness rock Paraguay
- Guardian
- 21 November 2021
Police in riot gear tore down a community’s homes and ripped up crops, highlighting the country’s highly unequal land ownership
Interview with Maria Luisa Mendonça
- Free City Radio
- 17 November 2021
Listen to an interview with Maria Luisa Mendonça of Rede Social on US teachers' pension fund TIAA investments in Brazil land grabbing and deforestation.
Brasil: Carne e soja pressionam a Terra Indígena Karipuna
- CIMI
- 26 October 2021
Aumento de 44% no desmatamento ameaça povo Karipuna e dificulta combate às mudanças climáticas
Top global banks and investors made an estimated $1.74 billion in income since Paris Climate Agreement from deals with agribusinesses linked to destruction of climate-critical forests and human rights abuses
- Global Witness
- 21 October 2021
Big financial institutions rake in profits bankrolling the destruction of the land, homes and livelihoods of communities who have safeguarded their forests for generations
Brasil: Aprovação do marco temporal ‘premiará’ invasores de terras
- IHU
- 20 October 2021
Se a tese do marco temporal for aprovada pelo STF, o território Xokleng e mais de 300 terras indígenas estarão com as demarcações ameaçadas.
Grandes Transacciones de Tierras del noreste Brasileño
- Land Matrix
- 14 October 2021
Se resalta el control de territorios en el Noreste de Brasil con un enfoque especial en la multidimensionalidad del proceso en esta región. Si bien el agronegocio es el foco principal, se instalan y renuevan otras formas de explotación predatoria, siempre con la aprobación y apoyo del Estado.