Overview
- The Comissão Pastoral da Terra recorded 841 agrarian conflicts in the first half of 2026, up 5.3% from the same period in 2025.
- The number of people killed in rural disputes fell sharply to six, down from 27 in H1 2025, even as overall incidents rose.
- Land disputes remain dominant with 711 cases while water conflicts rose from 47 to 100 across 20 states and slave-labor cases dropped to 30.
- Contamination by agrochemicals surged to 169 cases and mining contamination appeared with 195 cases all in Jacareacanga, Pará, linked to illegal gold mining that affected the Munduruku Indigenous Territory.
- The CPT, led by Cecília Gomes, ties the pattern to growing finance-driven demand for land from agribusiness and investors and says the H1 2026 data will feed into its 2027 national report.