TIAA’s Accumulation of Farmland is Not Responsible
TIAAâs âResponsible Investment in Farmlandâ report series highlights the fact that in 2011 TIAA was one of a group of businesses that developed the Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI) Farmland Guidelines, which are supposed to guide ins tu onal investors who wish to invest in farmland in a responsible manner. Read More
Forests and Human Rights: Principles for Asset Managers
BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, has no clear policy on forests, land, and human rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities Read More
Doubling Down on Deforestation
Analyzing how the Big Three asset managers enable consumer goods companies to destroy the world's forests. Read More
BlackRock’s Big Deforestation Problem
This paper examines the role of BlackRock, the worldâs largest fund manager with $6.5 trillion USD of assets under management, in financing the global crisis of deforestation and land conflict. Read More
How Palm Oil Poses Material Risks to Investors
Palm oil is an edible plant oil derived from the fruit of the oil palm tree and used in thousands of consumer products, from cookies to cosmetics to biofuels. Read More
The Importance of Land Rights for Investors in Agribusiness
Within the field of sustainable development, there is no concern more fundamental than the governance and management of land and natural re- sources. Yet institutional investors with significant holdings in emerging markets securities often fail to account for the material risks and benefits of properly incorporating land tenure and customary land rights into due diligence practices. Read More
Environmental Social and Governance Policies of the Top U.S. Financiers of Palm Oil
Current ranking among US equity investors with stocks in palm oil production, by dollar amount invested. Read More
High Risk in the Rainforest
New findings indicate that GVL has failed to reform its operations, despite numerous complaints led with the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) since 2012, including a comprehensive set of complaints armed by the RSPO Complaints Panel in February 2018. Read More
Transnational corporations and land speculation in Brazil
TIAA-CREF Global Agriculture, one of the largest corporations on the international land market, is buying huge tracts of land in Brazilâs Cerrado region. TIAA-CREFâs land acquisition is part of a trend leading to expropriation of land from indigenous people, Afro-Brazilian quilombolas, and other peasant farmers, and driving the destruction of the fragile Cerrado ecosystem. Read More
Invested in Exploitation? TIAAâs Ties to Land Grabbing and Deforestation
The investment management firm TIAA is leading a trend of speculating in land markets, which drives up farmland prices and displaces family farmers. Read More