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In brief: A pension’s journey from farmland to natural capital
- New Private Markets
- 07 May 2025
How farmland became a pillar of South Yorkshire Pension Authority's net-zero plans.
How a deadly flood in Malawi may land a British food giant in court
- The Times
- 05 May 2025
The people of Kanseche believe a sugar plantation owned by Associated British Foods was to blame for floodwaters devastating their village and killing seven
Sierra Leone: Maconteh communities protest over unpaid land leases by agroforestry firm
- Care Times
- 25 April 2025
Six communities in Maconteh Chiefdom, Port Loko District, including Rogbessh, Faidugu, Rokama, Robat, and Kirima have staged a peaceful protest against agroforestry company Rewinding BKM for failing to pay 2024 land lease fees.
Kyrgyzstan to plant 10 million trees in Issyk-Kul via carbon credit initiative
- Times of Central Asia
- 09 April 2025
The joint initiative with UK-based Valor Carbon aims to plant over 10 million trees across 25,000 hectares in the Issyk-Kul region, with the potential to attract up to $180 million in climate financing.
Foreign investors snap up Rawlinna sheep station
- The Australian
- 04 Mar 2025
The famed Consolidated Pastoral Company, now owned by English financier Guy Hands, has bought Australia’s biggest sheep station Rawlinna after it was put on the block when tycoon Andrew Forrest last year dumped plans to buy it for a renewable energy project.
Éthiopie : un projet de 600 millions $ pour booster la production laitière
- Agence Ecofin
- 18 February 2025
En Éthiopie, la société britannique de capital-investissement Asset Green a signé un accord avec l’Ethiopian Investment Holdings et l’Ethiopian Agricultural Business Corporation pour réaliser un projet intégré de production laitière et de cultures commerciales (15 000 ha)
UK Asset Green signs a $600M project agreement with EIH, EABC
- FanaBC
- 17 February 2025
The Ethiopian Investment Holdings and Agricultural Works Corporation signed a 600 million USD shareholders agreement to jointly invest in a 15,000 ha Integrated Dairy and Commercial Farming Project with the United Kingdom’s Asset Green Company.
UK: The billionaires and aristocrats cashing in on tree-planting schemes
- The i Paper
- 19 January 2025
As millions in public money flows towards the planting of trees, some are also raising concerns about the environmental credentials of many schemes.
Toesca Asset Management and Astarte Capital Partners launch $350mn regenerative agriculture investment platform in Latin America
- Astarte
- 03 December 2024
Toesca Permanent Crops II aims to invest US $350mn in a portfolio of permanent crops based on regenerative and sustainable practices, in Chile, Peru and other Latin American countries.
Avon Pension Fund to invest a further £150m in natural capital
- Room 151
- 27 November 2024
Avon Pension Fund plans to further allocate between £100m and £150m to assets such as sustainable forestry and agriculture due to the assets return factors.
China and the UK lead in Australian ag land foreign ownership
- Sheep Central
- 25 November 2024
Findings from the Federal Government’s latest annual Foreign Ownership of Agricultural Land Register released last week show the total area of ag land with a level of offshore ownership has fallen just 0.3 percent from 47.7 million hectares to 47.56m ha last year.
Kazakhstan to plant forests to reduce carbon dioxide emissions
- Times of Central Asia
- 19 November 2024
The British company SEFE Marketing & Trading Ltd. and Kazakhstan’s SAFC LLP signed an agreement to plant 3.3 million trees across 1,500 hectares in the Almaty region to produce carbon credits