#  Stop Land Grabs: The Financialization of Farmland, the Rights of Rural Communities and University Endowments and Academic Retirements 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 8, 2023** 

 11:00AM - 01:00PM EST 

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 **Robinson Hall, Warren Center Conf. Room (#B21), 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

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The seminar will focus on the key role that Harvard University, through its endowment, and the retirement fund manager TIAA, which manages the retirement savings of university faculty and staff around the country, play in financial speculation on farmland in Brazil, the United States and other countries. This financial speculation on farmland is causing displacement of rural communities, human rights violations, and environmental destruction.   
  
These financial corporations promote the expansion of agribusiness plantations that demand large amounts of chemical inputs which are based on fossil fuels. The seminar will build outreach to pressure Harvard and TIAA to divest from farmland. It will be an opportunity for international organizing in defense of food sovereignty and land rights for Indigenous, small farmers and peasant communities. This event is part of the Workshop Slavery and its afterlives, from the Graduate Center of the History Department.

   
Maria Luisa Mendonca   
Network for Social Justice and Human Rights   
  
Devlin Kuyek   
GRAIN   
  
Dr. Sidney Chalhoub   
Harvard University  
  
Tristan Quinn-Thibodeau   
Stop Land Grabs Coalition/ActionAid USA   
  
Altamiran Ribeiro - Pastoral Land Commission   
Piauf/Brazil   
  
Rachel Carle   
Stop Harvard Land Grabs



 

 

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