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...
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The Ärzteversorgung Westfalen-Lippe (ÄVWL) has withdrawn from highly problematic land purchases in Brazil after ten years. This was confirmed by ÄVWL to FIAN...
What connects the retirement savings of US teachers with inflating land and food prices in Brazil?Maria Luisa Mendonça and Daniela Stefan explain.
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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 ...
It's time for universities to stop funding land grabs and deforestation.
Pension funds and university endowments are currently invested in land theft — from Indigenous communiti...
by Felipe Alfonso | Jul 8, 2021
In the Spring of 2021, I came across a group of international researchers and activists who had been investigating Harvard’s farmland investments in Brazil and worldwi...
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...
