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Pension Funds and other investors are displacing communities and driving the climate crisis.
It is time to demand that financiers get out of forests.
It is time to demand that financiers get out of forest and farmland and pensions get out of plantations!
STOP LAND GRABS CAMPAIGN
The Stop Land Grabs Campaign
We are a coalition of environmental organizations, human rights organizations, farmers organizations, unions, and individual university professors. We are demanding that financial companies GET OUT of forests and farmland. Pensions should not be investing in plantations.
STOP LAND GRABS CAMPAIGN
A New Wave of Land Grabbing
In the past decade, endowments, pension funds, and other institutional investors acquired millions of acres of land have been bought up, and that number is continuing to grow as new investment companies, from state pension funds to massive hedge funds, consider farmland.
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Our retirement savings are being exposed to risky, speculative, and destructive investments that violate people's human rights and jeopardize the future of the planet.
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Since the year 2000, deals for the purchase or use of more than 9 million hectares of land have been closed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), affecting approximately 4% of its landmass.
As of 2019, Peru had been the country where the biggest land grabs had taken place, with just over 16 million hectares ceded over the past twenty years, largely intended for mining.
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Fracking Our Thanksgiving Feast by Joel Greeno.
My family has raised dairy cows on our farm in Monroe County near Kendall, Wisconsin, for almost 150 years. We’ve weathered the Great Depression, low milk prices, droughts, floods, and snowstorms. Despite difficulties, the dairy and related industries generate $26.5 billion in revenue, 174,000 jobs, and fresh, healthy milk, cheese and butter to the state each year.
Because human rights go beyond borders.
The handbook and toolkit “Human Rights Beyond Borders: How to Hold States Accountable for Extraterritorial Violations” aims to serve as a practical guide for human rights advocates and social movements in monitoring and holding States accountable on their compliance with extraterritorial obligations (ETOs).
The global farmland grab by pension funds needs to stop.
Money from pension funds has fuelled the financial sector’s massive move into farmland investing over the past decade. The number of pension funds involved in farmland investment and the amount of money they are deploying into it is increasing, under the radar.