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...
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.
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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...
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...
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.
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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The Ärzteversorgung Westfalen-Lippe (ÄVWL) has withdrawn from highly problematic land purchases in Brazil after ten years.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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