Brazil

Spain-based El Ciruelo has reached an agreement with Grupo JD to acquire its subsidiary Labrunier, the largest Brazilian table grape producer, with 2,400 hectares of land in Brazil.

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.

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.

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”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Les pressions pour ouvrir le marché foncier au Brésil proviennent principalement de Chine.