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When land becomes a global financial asset: The MATOPIBA case in Brazil
- GNRFN
- 07 November 2018
How can it be that finance centers in New York or Stockholm exercise control over lands in Northeastern Brazil?
Businessman turned philanthropist accused of murders and land theft in Brazil's Northeast
- Brasil Reporter
- 02 September 2018
Portrait of a Brazilian businessman accused of violent land grabbing whose clients include Cargill, Bunge and the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA).
International financial capital and the Brazilian land market
- LatAm Perspectives
- 28 June 2018
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.
Land-grabbing and the financialization of agricultural land
- LeftEast
- 30 May 2018
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.
Who owns Australia’s farms? Nation’s biggest landholders of 2018
- Weekly Times
- 23 May 2018
The Weekly Times has compiled a list of more than 900 properties, and their owners, who range from family farms to domestic and international corporate and investment institutions. The result? The big are getting bigger.
Is land speculation helping destroy Brazil’s “birthplace of waters”?
- 01 May 2018
On the occasion of a new report on land speculation in the Cerrado by the Brazilian Network for Social Justice and Human Rights, Friends of the Earth (FOE) interviews one of the report’s authors to shine some light on the issue.
Documents forged with cricket poop used to legalize land claims in Brazil as World Bank project opens doors to land grabber
- ActionAid
- 02 April 2018
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.”
Cerrado: U.S. investment spurs land theft, deforestation in Brazil, say experts
- Mongabay
- 28 Mar 2018
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.
The current World Bank’s land titling program in northeastern Brazil is a license for land grabbing
- Campanha Nacional em Defesa do Cerrado
- 21 Mar 2018
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.
Public Note: In the Cerrado of Piaui, Brazil, communities suffer violations and lose their land
- CPT et al.
- 23 February 2018
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
Imobiliárias agrícolas transnacionais e a especulação com terras na região do MATOPIBA
- Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos
- 14 February 2018
A região predominantemente do nordeste brasileiro chamada de MATOPIBA tem sido alvo da especulação imobiliária agrícola e da expansão do agronegócio, que conta com incentivos fiscais e créditos subsidiados pelo Estado para financiar a produção de soja, milho, eucalipto, algodão e cana-de-açúcar.
Fundos de pensão estrangeiros e a aquisição de terras no Brasil em debate na Universidade de Nova York
- CPT
- 14 February 2018
A segunda edição do Seminário Internacional "Fundos de Pensões, Mercados Financeiros e Especulação do Território" será realizada amanhã, dia 15 de fevereiro, no Centro de Pós-Graduação da Universidade de Nova York.