During the World Bank's annual land conference. Actionaid joined with 70 organizations in Brazil and across the globe to reveal how one of the Bank's own projects is a “license for land grabbing.”
Investigation uncovers how Harvard University's endowment is involved in a violent case of land grabbing, covering 140,000 ha in the Brazilian state of Bahia.
In Brazil's Cerrado region, large-scale farms have increasingly laid claim to natural lands – often held without deed by traditional communities – with agribusiness counting them as their reserves.
As comunidades locais, incluindo comunidades de quilombolas (descendentes de escravos negros) e povos indígenas, estão sendo violentamente deslocadas de suas terras tradicionais e enfrentam contaminação das águas e solos, aumento da violência contra seus líderes comunitários, desmatamento e perda da biodiversidade.
The World Bank is financing a land titling program in the Brazilian State of Piauí, where large areas of land have been grabbed from local communities and illegally occupied by big agribusiness companies.
El nuevo puerto debe favorecer la región que forman varios estados del noreste de Brasil (Maranhao, Tocantins, Piauí y Bahía), conocida como Matopiba, y cuyas cadenas de producción deben verse favorecidas con las nuevas instalaciones.
PF desmonta fraude fundiária a partir de documentos forjados no interior
モザンビーク、ナカラリ - 政府関係者が村に来て紙に署名するように頼んだとき、エレナ・ビトーはプロサバンナ事業について耳にしたことがなかった。 彼女は署名を拒否し、今日、署名しなかったことを幸運に思っている。
2017年10月24日と25日に「No to ProSavana Campaign（プロサバンナにノー！ キャンペーン）」が中心となって第3回三カ国民衆会議が開催された。
Harvard bet the farm in Brazil and lost. The university, which invested at least $150 million in a mega farm project in country's northeast, is now exiting, according to people familiar with the matter.
América Latina mantuvo en 2017 el primer lugar en el ranking mundial de asesinatos contra personas defensoras de la tierra y el medio ambiente elaborado por Global Witness.
Groups once again publicly denounce the alarming increase in violence and violations of rights of the communities in the Cerrado in Piauí, part of the region where the federal government is implementing its Matopiba Agricultural Development Plan
