Trader Cargill, pension fund TIAA linked to land grabs in Brazil’s Cerrado

Mongabay
Feb 3, 2021, 1:38 pm452 ptsHot
In the far west of Brazil’s Bahia state, sprawling soybean plantations extend from the edges of the highways right up to the horizon. The region is considered Brazil’s new grain frontier, its roads bustling with trucks hauling agrochemicals, cattle, and tons of soybeans. The 2019-2020 harvest was the second…

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