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Brasil: Os planos de Ricardo Faria, um dos maiores donos de terras do país
- Revista Exame
- 04 January 2022
O empresário Ricardo Faria se tornou um dos maiores produtores de grãos do país. Agora se prepara para abrir novas frentes no setor.
How your 401(k) is helping destroy the Amazon rainforest
- Intercept
- 23 November 2021
The growing financialisation of Brazilian agribusiness is enabling foreign investment in the industry most responsible for deforestation - and land grabbing
Solum Partners acquires majority stake in Monte Vista Farming Company
- GAI
- 19 August 2021
Solum Partners has made its second investment since its spin-out from Harvard Management in October 2020 – acquiring a majority position in Monte Vista Farming Company, a California-based almond huller, sheller, and processor.
US, Argentine investors tied to illegal land deals, deforestation in Brazil
- Mongabay
- 29 July 2021
Reporting by Agência Pública has revealed how investors including U.S. pension funds and an Argentine agribusiness giant may be linked to illegal land deals and deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado region.
Stop Harvard Land Grabs Public Forum
- Harvard Stop Land Grabs
- 10 June 2021
On May 3rd, 2021, we gathered with frontline land defenders, researchers, students, alumni, faculty, staff, and community members from around the world to learn about Harvard’s farmland investments and build power.
University of Iowa faculty rebuke farmland investors for fueling land grabs and corporate takeover of agriculture
- ActionAidUSA
- 28 April 2021
The University of Iowa Faculty Senate voted 42 to 7 to pass a resolution calling on the university to hold the financial services provider TIAA accountable for its investments in global farmland.
Pandemic fails to slow agribusiness’s thirst for Cerrado’s water
- Mongabay
- 08 February 2021
The spread of giant soybean plantations in the Brazilian state of Bahia threatens tributaries, floodplains and sources of essential rivers such as the Corrente and the São Francisco.
Federal agency deems TIAA’s land holdings in Brazil legally null and void
- CRR
- 18 December 2020
A technical report by Brazil’s land reform agency INCRA has deemed TIAA’s land titles in Brazil to be legally null and void.
Brasil: Operações no mercado de terras do fundo de pensão TIAA e da universidade de Harvard são julgados ilegais
- GRAIN
- 17 December 2020
O INCRA e o Tribunal de Justiça da Bahia reconheceram que o fundo de pensão da empresa estadunidense TIAA e o fundo de investimentos da Universidade de Harvard adquiriram ilegalmente centenas de milhares de hectares de terras no Cerrado.
TIAA and Harvard’s Brazilian farm deals judged illegal
- AATR, Rede Social, GRAIN
- 17 December 2020
Brazil's land agency and a state court have determined that pension fund manager TIAA and Harvard University’s endowment fund illegally acquired hundreds of thousands of hectares of farmlands in Brazil’s ecologically sensitive Cerrado region.
Grilagem no Cerrado baiano resvala na Cargill e em fundo de pensão dos EUA
- Mongabay
- 14 December 2020
Fornecedora da Cargill, a SLC Agrícola desmatou, em 2020, mais de 5 mil hectares de Cerrado para cultivar soja em Formosa do Rio Preto (BA). A trader estrangeira, maior empresa privada dos EUA, comprometeu-se a barrar a prática em suas cadeias produtivas;
Soy traders in the Brazilian Cerrado under pressure as fires continue to burn in the vicinity of silos
- CRR
- 15 October 2020
The Matopiba region is home to the majority of the Cerrado’s remaining vegetation, and, conversely, among the highest deforestation and fire rates in Brazil.