rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/petition/tiaanuveen-needs-a-no-deforestation-policy?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-petition-area-tiaanuveen-needs-a-no-deforestation-policy' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Andrew Montes https://actionnetwork.org/users/as-you-sow/profile https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/share_options/facebook_images/000/348/920/original/AdobeStock_34049525_banner.png Along with its subsidiary Nuveen, TIAA is one of the largest pension funds in the U.S. Despite its reputation for social responsibility, TIAA is also one of the world’s largest investors in fossil fuels and agribusiness, and the largest investor of farmland in the world, with almost 2 million acres of farmland on four continents worth as much as $10 billion. But TIAA’s agribusiness investments and farmland deals are causing more harm than it lets on. These deals are driving land grabs, deforestation, and human rights violations, and they’re squeezing out family farmers and rural communities. Demand that TIAA stop buying farmland and institute a No Deforestation Policy TIAA is buying farmland in countries and in regions where land grabbing and fraud are widespread. Its activities are both contributing to and benefiting from the dispossession of local communities, increasing hunger, and violence. TIAA’s farmland deals also come at a heavy ecological cost. They are destroying the environment and contaminating water sources because they promote and spread a plantation model of agriculture that relies heavily on chemical inputs. TIAA also holds millions of dollars of shares in palm oil, timber and beef producers like Tyson, Hormel, International Paper and Golden-Agri Resources, but has resisted efforts to pressure these companies to address their deforestation problem. Tell TIAA to adopt a No Deforestation Policy and get out of farmland altogether. As a firm that manages funds for academics and non-profits, TIAA should be especially rigorous in its environmental and social standards. Together we can pressure it to change course. Urge TIAA/Nuveen to adopt a No Deforestation Policy! https://deforestationfreefunds.org/petitions/TIAA%20Nuveen