In her new book, Fields of Gold, Madeleine Fairbairn critically examines the history, ideas, and political struggles surrounding the financialization of farmland.

The invasion of large scale cattle breeding in areas inhabited by traditional populations is widespread in the Amazonian area.

O fundo de investimentos da universidade norte-americana possui pelo menos 405 mil hectares de terras no Cerrado brasileiro. Muitas fazendas colecionam violações de direitos contra pequenos agricultores e crimes ambientais.

Sayaka Funada-Classen reports that the Japanese and Mozambican governments have announced the termination of ProSAVANA, a huge victory for Mozambican peasant movements and tri-national peoples solidarity

A push to privatise land and other resources in countries from Ukraine to Papua New Guinea is hurting indigenous people and the rural poor, while increasing the risks linked to climate change.

TIAA is set to confirm a $21 million compensation package for its CEO and a Board of Trustees that has been unresponsive regarding the use of retirement money to grab farmland, destroy forests and violate human rights.

Dos 49,8 milhões de hectares de florestas sob responsabilidade estadual e federal, 11,6 milhões de hectares foram declarados irregularmente como imóveis rurais, de uso particular, no Sistema Nacional de Cadastro Ambiental Rural.

Aquisições de terras em larga escala — que cobrem pelo menos 200 hectares — contribuem para a destruição das florestas tropicais.

&Green Fund, with backing from the Norwegian government and Unilever, makes its first investment in a Brazilian farming company that grows soybeans and grains and raises cattle on 50,000 hectares in Mato Grosso.

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.

A engrenagem do capital esmaga a Amazônia, seus povos, a floresta e seus rios: de um lado, a expansão da soja e da pecuária, unidas à derrubada e comercialização ilegal de madeiras e às queimadas criminosas que “limpam a terra” para o agronegócio

BrasilAgro, which recently merged with farmland investor Agrifirma, continues to aggressively implement its business model that focuses on the acquisition and transformation of Cerrado savanna into farmland.