A new report details the web of companies with which Harvard Management Company, the university’s investment arm, directly invests in farmland around the world, risking conflict with communities from California to Brazil.

The university’s holdings in developing markets have proved to be more trouble than they’re worth.

In June 2018, Guyana’s Ministry of Agriculture unveiled an agreement with the Brazilian Agricultural Machinery and Research Institute that gives a green light to Brazilian investors lobbying for large tracts of lands in the Rupununi savannahs.

Euclides de Carli, dono de 13 empresas ligadas à venda e arrendamento de terras, oculta seu posto entre os maiores grileiros do país atrás da imagem de empresário filantropo

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).

Control of land for crops that sustain the world’s largest food businesses, such as Ferrero and Nestle, is the driving force behind the destruction of land affecting both environment and people worldwide.

O Relatório, que será apresentado pelo assessor sênior da Fian Internacional, Flávio Valente, descreve e analisa os impactos ambientais e sobre os direitos humanos causados pela expansão do agronegócio e pela especulação de terras na região Norte/Nordeste do Brasil, conhecida como Matopiba, que engloba áreas dos estados do Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí e Bahia.

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Global Witness annual figures show at least 207 land and environmental activists were killed in 2017 across 22 countries, almost 4 a week, making it the worst year on record.

“In the long term, South America, and the Black Sea area still have great potential in their arable land, and can play a bigger role in the global soybean supply system,” says the president of state grains trader COFCO.

Un nuevo informe revela cómo algunos fondos de pensiones, inversiones e instituciones internacionales están destruyendo el futuro de las comunidades rurales del noreste de Brasil.

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.