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.
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Some of the world's largest pension funds bet big on Brazilian farmland. Communities, and the climate, are paying the price.
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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...
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 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 ...
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The Ärzteversorgung Westfalen-Lippe (ÄVWL) has withdrawn from highly problematic land purchases in Brazil after ten years.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...
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’...
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 ...
Maria Luisa Mendonça
International finance and the transformation of Brazil’s agricultural lands
Deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado.
The election of Jair Bolsonaro in 20...