Brazil

Mega projeto brasileiro poderá deslocar milhões de camponeses em Moçambique.

A Brazilian megaproject in Mozambique is set to displace millions of peasants

Investment and pension funds are buying up Brazilian farmland and steadily pushing up the prices of Brazil's productive tropical farmland.

These documents from 2012 include the "Triangular Work Plan" and reports for the "Agricultural Development Master Plan"

A corrida por terras agrícolas levou investidores estrangeiros a adquirir pelo menos 83 milhões de hectares em países em desenvolvimento entre 2000 e 2010, segundo o Deutsche Bank.

US food giant Bunge has been implicated in a sugarcane scandal in Brazil that has kept an entire indigenous community off its land, polluted streams and inflicted illness and death on Guarani Indians.

Adecoagro, the South American farm operator backed by George Soros and Dwight Anderson, said that growth in the value of its huge land portfolio slowed to 5.6%, fuelling concerns over the impact of Argentine curbs on foreign investors.

Louis Dreyfus lifted the lid on commodities operations such as its 45 orange groves, and unveiled a healthy appetite for investment, as, after 160 years, it unveiled its first public results statement.

“Apesar de pequenos agricultores produzirem quase a metade dos alimentos no mundo, eles constituem a população mais fragilizada, em situação de miséria e fome, cuja ausência de titularidade ou posse da terra os torna mais vulneráveis”, constata a socióloga.

National Peasants' Union of Mozambique condemns trilateral agricultural project between Brazil, Japan and Mozambique for not taking into consideration the demands, dreams and basic concerns of peasants

Union Nationale des Paysans de Mozambique condamne le projet triangulaire entre le Mozambique, le Japon et le Brésil pour ne pas prendre en considération les demandes, aspirations et besoins des paysans.

União Nacional de Camponeses condena veementemente qualquer iniciativa que preconize o reassentamento de comunidades e expropriação de terra dos camponeses, para dar lugar à mega projectos agrícolas de produção de monoculturas