Stop Land Grabs Campaign

It is time to demand that financial corporations get out of forests and farmland!

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The retirement management fund TIAA (Teachers Annuity and Insurance Association) is one of the biggest, most prominent, and well-respected financial companies in the United States, which manages $1.3 million in retirement assets for 5 million faculty and staff at colleges and universities in the United States.

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TIAA

TIAA is the largest institutional owner of industrial farmland and timberland, with millions of acres for extractive agribusiness on four continents (in the US, Brazil, Eastern Europe, and Australia) worth over $11 billion, and which have been tied to land grabbing, widespread deforestation, destructive chemical monocrop agriculture, and corporate domination of agriculture. TIAA plans to acquire even more land in the Global South to be able to generate carbon credits instead of divesting from fossil fuels, even though they are simply consolidating land for large-scale industrial agriculture and the timber industry.

 

The company has built a reputation as a socially responsible investor, but in reality, it is a leader in climate greenwashing. It has pledged to achieve Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050, but it has refused to divest the $70 billion is has invested in fossil fuel companies and fossil fuel infrastructure and is instead claiming that the company will offset its emissions through carbon credits. However, unlike other companies, TIAA wants to generate its own offsets and its own carbon credits.

 

We are demanding that TIAA divest from its fossil fuel and land holdings by 2025, in order to keep the planet on track to contain global warming to 1.5 degrees C. 

Harvard

Harvard is the most well-known university in the world, and its massive $50 billion endowment is one of the largest holders of farmland and timberland.

 

Harvard’s $1 billion land investments are displacing communities and destroying the environment. We demand that Harvard end their land grabs and pay reparations.

National Policy

We are working to advance national policy that protects farmers access to land and expands farmland for BIPOC and new and beginning farmers.

 

We are also supporting national and international policies that promote a just transition to an ecological and socially just model of agriculture.

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Financial corporations are displacing communities and driving the climate crisis.

It is time to demand that financial corporations get out of forests and farmland.