26.05.2016 - 03:48 [ farmlandgrab.org ]

Brazil coup government to legalize foreign land grabbing

„This proposal represents the interests of an alliance between multinational agribusiness corporations, foreign pension funds and the Brazilian rural oligarchy,“ Maria Luisa Mendonça, director of Brazil‘s Network for Social Justice and Human Rights, told teleSUR. „It will increase the enormous land concentration in the country and its dependency on agricultural commodities based on mono-cropping for export.“