Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos

Cultivating space for contemporary resistance in Brazil’s Amazon...

Introduction The intensification of invasion and grabbing of lands in Brazil’s Amazon and Cerrado biomes, the expansion of agribusiness linked to corporate financial strategies, and the re-regulation...

Nevile-Plowman Best Article Prize

In 2019, the Editorial Board of The Economic and Labour Relations Review (ELRR) approved the establishment of the Nevile-Plowman Prize for the best article published in ELRR in any one year. ...

How Land Speculation Drives Environmental and Human Rights...

With global temperatures breaking records year after year and wildfires, floods and extreme weather events ravaging countries across the world, there is little question that the climate emergency is...

Report links H&M and Zara to major environmental...

A report by U.K. investigative NGO Earthsight links supply chains of fashion giants H&M and Zara to large-scale illegal deforestation, land-grabbing, violence and corruption in Brazil. The coun...

Who's behind the destruction of Brazil's Cerrado?

Some of the world's largest pension funds bet big on Brazilian farmland. Communities, and the climate, are paying the price. This story was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. In Au...

Stop Harvard Land Grabs Coalition Demands Reparations for...

By Alex Chou and Ayumi Nagatomi, Crimson Staff Writers The Stop Harvard Land Grabs Coalition reiterated calls for the University to provide reparations to residents impacted by former holdings in Bra...

New Report: Land Acquisition by Harvard University, Pension...

Brazilian soybean production reaches new highs after violence and environmental destruction skyrocketed during the four-year Bolsonaro administration WASHINGTON — As deforestation and environmental d...

Rural communities in Piauí, Brazil, request urgent action...

Rural communities from the Brazilian state of Piauí denounce increasing violence against their leaders and deforestation by land grabbers in the Cerrado, the world's largest tropical savanna. State ...

Ignoring Warning Signs, US Retirement Manager TIAA Bought...

It was late in 2016, and executives at a major U.S. retirement fund manager were worried. A media report had appeared in a Brazilian newspaper that threatened to drag them into a long-running battle o...

German doctors' pension fund sells stake in highly...

(Tranlsated from the original in German) The Ärzteversorgung Westfalen-Lippe (ÄVWL) has withdrawn from highly problematic land purchases in Brazil after ten years. This was confirmed by ÄVWL to FIAN...

Assets to Axes: How Harvard’s Land Investments Inspired...

Although the full extent of HMC’s former landholdings remain concealed behind a complex web of private equity firms, associated subsidiary companies and investment partners, what is clear is that HMC’...

NICE LITTLE EARNER

What connects the retirement savings of US teachers with inflating land and food prices in Brazil?Maria Luisa Mendonça and Daniela Stefan explain. download PDFarticle published at November/December e...

Harvard and TIAA’s farmland grab in Brazil goes up in smoke

INDUSTRIAL SOY EXPANSION IN BRAZIL

Foreign pension funds and land grabbing in Brazil

New Challenges and Strategies

Red-Handed Deforestation and Bunge’s Silent Conquest

The Destructive Agrarian Reform Policies of the World Bank

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