Brasil: “Grilagem organizada” ameaça biodiversidade e comunidades do Matopiba
- Brasil de fato
- 27 October 2020
Mudanças nas legislações estaduais em favor dos latifúndios favorecem apropriação de terras públicas.
Mudanças nas legislações estaduais em favor dos latifúndios favorecem apropriação de terras públicas.
Article examines the processes and actors involved and the connections that global financial capital makes in order to access lands and agricultural production in the Brazilian Cerrado.
Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard joins international civil society groups to shed light on HMC’s morally repugnant land investments
In the Brazilian Cerrado, on the nation’s agricultural frontier, rapid deforestation by expanding agribusiness, depletion of water resources, and an unsympathetic government are further complicating the resolution of the long-time struggle over land rights.
The student group Divest Harvard hosted a day of events calling attention to Harvard’s ownership of Brazilian land and reigniting its calls for the school to sell those holdings in the name of environmentalism.
Satellite maps show the connection between Harvard and TIAA's farmland acquisitions in Brazil's Cerrado and the massive number of fires that have been burning in the region since July of this year.
Com frequência, os incêndios são usados para afugentar moradores das áreas visadas, além de valorizar as terras – artimanha muito usada na Amazônia. Pelo choque de tantos interesses, há tensão entre povos indígenas, quilombolas e posseiros ou arrendatários. Em geral, o resultado é a destruição do que ainda resta de Cerrado no Matopiba.
Blackstone, owned by a top US Republican party donor, has launched two funds dedicated to buying farmland in Brazil that work with Brazilian companies to get around laws restricting direct foreign ownership.
Documentário retrata as belezas do Cerrado e o drama de populações tradicionais que convivem com a expansão devastadora do agronegócio na região do Matopiba.
Grassroots International is supporting partners and allies in a global campaign to stop violent and illegal land grabs at their source: the massive financial investments of pension funds and college endowments.
Na região conhecida como Matopiba, empresas de agronegócio vivem em conflito com comunidades do cerrado. No Piauí, empresário de 85 anos relata expulsão, ameaça e destruição de casas e da produção.
Harvard University, the US pension fund manager TIAA/Nuveen and Japan's Mitsui are among the foreign companies buying up Brazilian farmlands that are responsible for over 420,000 ha of deforestation in the Cerrado since 2000.
Russia seizes assets of agricultural firm AgroTerra
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