Brazil

Human Rights Day 2019: Land-related killings go up
- PANAP
- 10 December 2019
The Philippines, Brazil and Colombia ranked as the deadliest countries for farmers, farm workers, indigenous people and land rights activists.
Fast food suppliers importing deforestation and violence from Brazil
- Greenpeace
- 03 December 2019
Mega-traders Cargill and Bunge are exporting soya from an agricultural estate in Brazil with a long record of violence, illegality, and environmental destruction, a Greenpeace International investigation has uncovered
Brazil investigates agribusiness bribes to judges for favorable land rulings
- Mongabay
- 27 November 2019
Brazil’s Federal Police have launched an investigation, dubbed “Operation Far West,” to crack down on an alleged massive land grab by an agribusiness collective in western Bahia, one of Brazil’s largest soy producing regions.
Brazil Amazon deforestation soars to 11-year high under Bolsonaro
- Al Jazeera
- 18 November 2019
At a briefing to discuss the numbers, Minister of the Environment Ricardo Salles said the rise in deforestation showed the need for a new strategy to combat illegal logging, mining and land grabbing, which he said were to blame for the increase in deforestation.
Stony ground
- Economist
- 16 November 2019
Brazil and Japan plotted a farming revolution in Mozambique. But instead of sowing soya, they planted seeds of opposition.
Brazil prosecutors push soy, cattle moratorium to protect natives
- Reuters
- 14 November 2019
In a part of Brazil plagued by land conflicts and violence against indigenous tribes, prosecutors say they are pushing major grains traders and meatpackers to stop buying from farmers and ranchers charged with crimes against natives.
The Chain: Cerrado fires show TIAA and Harvard’s Endowment face mounting deforestation risks
- CRR
- 07 November 2019
With fires on their Cerrado properties, Harvard’s and TIAA’s deforestation exposure appears to be growing.
Farmland investors seek yields (almost) as high as an elephant’s eye
- INvestable Universe
- 31 October 2019
With very low interest rates having taken root across asset classes and investors abiding in their hunt for higher yields, the world’s largest manager of global farmland, Nuveen, says the season may be ripe for a strategic allocation to the $2.3 trillion market for U.S. farm real estate.
Lecture exposes pension fund's links to Brazil land grabs
- John Hopkins Newsletter
- 25 October 2019
Altamiran Ribeiro, a Brazilian land rights activist, told an audience at John Hopkins University about the land takeovers on behalf of corporations in Brazil and the long-term consequences on local communities and the environment.
El acaparamiento de tierras agrícolas de Harvard y TIAA en Brasil se hace humo
- GRAIN
- 22 October 2019
Tenemos pruebas de que los incendios del Cerrado también están vinculados a otros intereses financieros con sede en Estados Unidos: el Fondo de Dotación de la Universidad de Harvard y el TIAA, el fondo de pensiones privado que invierte en nombre de millones de profesores, académicos, enfermeras y trabajadores del gobierno en todo el país.
Divest Harvard holds protest about university’s Brazilian land ownership
- Harvard Crimson
- 22 October 2019
The student group Divest Harvard hosted a day of events calling attention to Harvard’s ownership of Brazilian land and reigniting its calls for the school to sell those holdings in the name of environmentalism.
Harvard and TIAA's farmland grab in Brazil goes up in smoke
- FOE US, GRAIN,NFFC, Rede Social
- 22 October 2019
Satellite maps show the connection between Harvard and TIAA's farmland acquisitions in Brazil's Cerrado and the massive number of fires that have been burning in the region since July of this year.