Ignoring civil society groups’ calls to reject agribusiness giant Louis Dreyfus Company loan, IFC fails to uphold its own environmental and social policies
WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 5, 2022 Despite ...
A campaign by U.S. and Brazilian activists challenging TIAA and other financial firms’ complicity in land grabs and deforestation in Brazil is scoring major victories.
Altamiran Ribeiro lives in the ...
March, 2018
The World Bank is financing a land titling, or “regularization” program in the Brazilian State of Piauí, where large areas of land have been grabbed from local communities and...
MENDONÇA, MARIA LUISA, ALTAMIRAN RIBEIRO, GERARDO CERDAS VEGA EMMANUEL PONTE, and DOUGLAS HERTZLER Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos, Brasil Comissão Pastoral da Terra, Piaui, Brasil ...
Retirement system is largest manager of farmland in the world - that contributes to land-grabbing, deforestation and human rights violations
Laura R. Graham and Meena Khandelwal
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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...
By Alexandra A. Chaidez, Crimson Staff Writer
August 29, 2019
As the Amazon rainforest continues to burn, members of Divest Harvard — a student group demanding the University divest from fossil ...
By Alexandra A. Chaidez and Meena Venkataramanan, Crimson Staff Writers
October 22, 2019
Divest Harvard — a student group demanding the University divest from fossil fuels — hosted a day of even...
The traditional riverside community Brejeira Salto, located in the rural area of Bom Jesus in Piauí, had its collective title granted. The granting of collective domain by the Piauí Land Institute is ...
by Alicia Prager and Flávia Milhorance on 28 March 2018
In Brazil, large swathes of land are owned by the state, but can be legally claimed by small-scale farmers if they cultiv...
Judge Hilo de Almeida Sousa decided on Tuesday afternoon (Jan 19) in favor of the Gamela people in the Morro D’Água indigenous territory, in the municipality of Baixa Grande do Ribeiro, in southern Pi...
