Fábio Pitta is a visiting scholar at Harvard's Department of History. His research focuses on the current financialization of capitalist relations in Brazilian agribusiness. He studies the relations of sectors such as the sugar cane, and the soybean agroindustry and farmland as a new financial asset class with the 2008 global financial crises. He shows that major investors such as pension, endowment and investment funds play an important role in these sectors, with huge impacts on the environment and over Afro- descendants, indigenous peoples and peasants communities. Pitta is also a visiting scholar at the Department of Geography at the University of São Paulo (USP); a visiting professor at the TerritoriAL Graduate Center in Geography/ UNESP/ MST and was an assistant professor in Geography at USP. Where he obtained two bachelor degrees in History and Philosophy and a Master and a PhD degrees in Human Geography, both funded by São Paulo State Research Foundation (FAPESP) scholarships. With scholarships from FAPESP, he holds two post-doctorates, one in Human Geography from USP and the other one in Economy, from the Freie Universität Berlin, in Germany.