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 ...
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 ...
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...
As the Movement for Black Lives demands alternatives to racist systems in our country, communities of color around the world press on in their struggles for land and self-determination.
Last fall, Af...
May 19, 2020
To mark this year’s International Biodiversity Day, May 22, we call upon participants in investment funds, pension funds and retirement plans to demand an end to speculation with farmlan...
The world is spiralling into another profound economic crisis. The last one a decade ago, which was caused by a collapse of the financial sector, triggered a global rush for farmland, as pension funds...
In April 2019, a Grassroots International delegation visited the Quilombola community of Marudá. We went there right after the governments of Brazil and the US signed an agreement granting US access t...
This report analyses the sustainability and financial risks of the farmland investment funds of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA, formerly TIAA-CREF) in Brazil. Such ris...
A new report details how agribusiness—especially soy, sugar, palm oil, and beef production—was the second deadliest sector for people standing up for the environment and their lands.
BY GRETA M...
