Land and Territory: Sovereignty, Culture and Resistance
This month, as we wrap up our celebration of the 25th anniversary of food sovereignty, we’re highlighting our partners’ struggles for land and territory.
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TIAA and Harvard Land Grabs Ruled Illegal
By: Grassroots International | December 18, 2020Grassroots International partner Rede Social and our allies GRAIN and the Brazilian Association of Rural Workers’ Lawyers have just released a new report on land grabbing in Brazil.
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VIDEO: Land Grabs in Brazil
By: Grassroots International | December 15, 2020Land thefts are a particularly important issue in Brazil. Grassroots International co-hosted a recent webinar with allies and partners on the role of U.S. financial institutions driving land grabs and their effect on small-scale farmers.
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New report calls on Harvard University to stop land grabs
By: Grassroots International | May 12, 2020Members of the affected communities say that Harvard's local intermediaries used bribes and violent intimidation to push them off their lands.
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Quilombolas attacked under cover of coronavirus
By: Quilombola Movements and Allies | March 30, 2020Quilombolas in Alcântara are under threat. As the world tackles COVID-19, the Brazilian and U.S. governments are using the crisis as cover to steal Afro-Indigenous land for a military base.
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Grassroots International Partners Speak out as Amazon Burns
By: Carol Schachet | August 27, 2019As fire rages through the Amazon, the global community can no longer simply ignore the ongoing practices of deforestation, unchecked development and land grabs that threaten the region and, in fact, the planet. For nearly a month, spreading fires have...
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Environmental Defenders — Often Fighting Agribusiness — Are Being Violently Silenced Around the World
By: Greta Moran, Civil Eats | August 1, 2019A 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.
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Stopping Colleges’ Land Grabs: Farmers and Faculties Unite
By: Chris Morrill | April 24, 2019Our partners and our allies are working to stop violent, illegal land grabs at their unexpected source: the massive investments of pension funds and college endowments.
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Grassroots Staff Form Connections with Quilombola Communities
By: Leonie Rauls | September 28, 2018Three members of Grassroots International’s team, Lydia, Jovanna, and Chung-Wha, recently returned from Brazil in July 2018 where they met with partners and Quilombola movements to learn and deepen relationships.
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Is Land Speculation Helping Destroy Brazil’s “Birthplace of Waters”?
By: Jeff Conant | May 19, 2018On the occasion of a new report on land speculation in the Cerrado by the Brazilian Network for Social Justice and Human Rights, Friends of the Earth (FOE) has interviewed one of the report’s authors, Fabio Pitta, in order to shine some light on the issue.
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Financial Markets and Land Speculation
The Seminar is part of an international campaign focusing on the role of the pension fund TIAA and includes social movements and scholars from Brazil, Canada, Germany and the United States looking at financial markets, land and food systems. Financialization...
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TIAA Tied to Deforestation and Displacement of Farmers, Environmentalists Claim in New Report
By: Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos | December 4, 2017According to a report released today by leading environmental and social justice advocates, the investment management firm TIAA is leading a trend of speculating in land markets, which drives up farmland prices and displaces family farmers.
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VIDEO: Maria Luisa Mendonça of Rede Social on Crisis & Organizing in Brazil
By: Christy Pardew | May 26, 2017Journalist Sonali Kolhatkar interviews Grassroots International's Brazilian partner Maria Luisa Mendonça of the Social Network for Justice and Human Rights (Rede Social). Maria Luisa shares the current political context of what has been happening in Brazil.
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New Report on TIAA’s Links to Deforestation and Land Grabbing
By: Christy Pardew | May 16, 2017New report on TIAA's links to deforestation and land grabbing exposes TIAA's role in leading a trend of investment in farmland that drives up land prices and displaces family farmers, and TIAA's investments in Southeast Asian palm oil companies known for ravaging tropical forests, abusing workers and indigenous peoples, and driving species to the brink of extinction.
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TIAA Campaign Update: Momentum Builds Towards a Land Grab-Free Policy Shift
By: Grassroots Staff | April 24, 2017Over 100,000 people, including thousands of TIAA holders, have taken action demanding that TIAA respect small farmers as part of our Campaign to Get TIAA Out of Forests and Farmland. Learn how you can take action today!
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Results to Celebrate in 2016
By: Jonathan Leaning | December 28, 2016With the generous support of our donors, Grassroots International feels honored to have bolstered hands-on solutions to some of the most critical challenges we face: hunger, violations of human rights, climate change and economic disparity. At this moment, we take a moment to applaud some of the exceptional achievements from the past year.
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90+ Celebrities, Actors, Artists, and NGOs Decry Attack on Brazil School
By: Grassroots International | November 14, 2016Over 90 celebrities, academics, and organizations to issue an urgent call to denounce the raid by police of an internationally renowned school in São Paulo, Brazil on Friday morning, Nov 4th.
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Growing Resistance & Building Solidarity From Brazil to the Bay Area
What: A potluck community dialogue to share and learn about: The recent coup in Brazil Impacts and resistance from social movements Connections to community struggles in the Bay Area Ways to build mutual solidarity Special Guest: Maria Luisa (Maisa) Mendonça, Rede...
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Major U.S. Labor, Human Rights, Environmental and Women’s Organizations Denounce “Legislative Coup” Against Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff
By: Maria Luisa Mendonça & Jovanna García Soto | August 24, 2016As the Olympic Games come to a close in Rio de Janeiro, non-governmental organizations and unions in the United States are condemning the impeachment process against Brazil’s president. A public statement released today states: “We, the undersigned organizations, support democracy in Brazil and denounce the forced removal of Brazil’s elected president, Dilma Rousseff, as well as the criminalization and repression of Brazilian social movements.”
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Take Action
Knowing the truth is one thing. Doing something about it is another. We invite you to do something by becoming an activist for food sovereignty and the human right to land, water and food. Current actions: Support Families Affected by...