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TIAA has always insisted that its joint ventures with Brazilian sugar company Cosan invest responsibly. But leaked documents show they ignored a litany of red flags when buying farms in a region long known for land grabbing.

Banks, pension funds and insurers have been turning California's scarce water into enormous profits, leaving people with less to drink

The report details corporate land investments in the Mississippi Delta region, and ways that the growth of speculative farmland ownership exacerbates barriers that farmers face accessing and maintaining land in the region.

The real threat to our food security, according to researchers, is broader corporate ownership and consolidation of American farmland — including by domestic investors.

NFFC says that a new “land grab” is underway in the US, with Wall Street investors, pension funds, and other financiers looking for a safe place to park their money and turning to farmlands as their preferred investment.

Global agricultural investor Nuveen Natural Capital has joined a growing pool of institutional fund managers targeting Australia’s burgeoning macadamia sector, after buying one of the country’s largest orchards

The Japanese insurer has made its first investment in a farmland strategy fund, committing $50 million to the Nuveen Global Farmland Fund Lux SCSp

Activist groups and nearly 300 pension plan clients accuse TIAA of “systematic land acquisitions and land management linked to deforestation, illegality and human rights violations, including in the Brazilian Cerrado.”

The most effective means of countering corporate power is to restore control of the land and agricultural knowledge to the communities who live on and with the land.

US pension fund manager TIAA provides an introduction to carbon markets for land-based investments in order to evaluate how carbon can be incorporated into land-based investment strategies.

The expansion of industrial agriculture in Brazil has been an international affair, linking pension funds, university endowments, and major financial actors across the world.

Pesquisa da Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos humanos evidencia vínculos de empresas com queimadas, desmatamento e expropriação de comunidades rurais; SLC, Insolo, BrasilAgro, Dahma e Radar/Tellus também são citadas