Brazil

O Relatório, que será apresentado pelo assessor sênior da Fian Internacional, Flávio Valente, descreve e analisa os impactos ambientais e sobre os direitos humanos causados pela expansão do agronegócio e pela especulação de terras na região Norte/Nordeste do Brasil, conhecida como Matopiba, que engloba áreas dos estados do Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí e Bahia.

Webdocumentário | Como os camponeses do Norte de Moçambique têm resistido à chegada das grandes empresas de agricultura

Global Witness annual figures show at least 207 land and environmental activists were killed in 2017 across 22 countries, almost 4 a week, making it the worst year on record.

“In the long term, South America, and the Black Sea area still have great potential in their arable land, and can play a bigger role in the global soybean supply system,” says the president of state grains trader COFCO.

Un nuevo informe revela cómo algunos fondos de pensiones, inversiones e instituciones internacionales están destruyendo el futuro de las comunidades rurales del noreste de Brasil.

Brazilian agribusiness corporations have created partnerships with pension funds in the United States, Canada, and Europe for the “outsourcing” of land operations that are analogous to the international outsourcing of labor.

Study's results in the Amazon “clearly” reinforce “the notion that oil palm plantations can be extremely hostile to native tropical forest biodiversity, as has been shown in more traditional oil palm countries in South-East Asia, such as Malaysia and Indonesia.”

" Reafirmamos que investimentos como o ProSavana, programa de desenvolvimento do corredor logístico de Nacala e o programa Sustenta não são e jamais serão alternativas de desenvolvimento agrário que se ajustam às necessidades dos moçambicanos e moçambicanas".

The peasant men and women who are members of the No to ProSavana Campaign maintain our opposition to this program and the way it has been imposed on us

Les paysans mozambicains font reculer l’agro-industrie

There are signs that Brazil’s overvalued farmland may continue to face further contested land risks, especially if Brazilian prosecutors continue to analyze investments that lack clear land title.

On the occasion of the publication of Transnational Corporations and Land Speculation in Brazil, Mary Taylor of LeftEast spoke with Fábio Pitta, Devlin Kuyek and Attila Szőcs about the broader implications of the report's findings.