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DMCI President Isidro Consunji said the family's agriculture business was developing a 12,000-hectare African palm oil plantation in Negros Occidental, as well as a partnership with Japan's Marubeni and UP Los Baños to plant 1.5 million trees across 15,000 hectares for carbon credits.

Officials of the Malagasy state have leased land in three municipalities of the Ihorombe region to the company Tozzi Green for 30 years. Numerous studies have shown the pressures and manipulations exerted by the authorities, at all levels, to force local communities to accept the company's land use. Some residents refused to the end. Others, among those who agreed, say that they now regret having done so. New information now emerges.

Des responsables de l’Etat malgache ont loué des terres dans trois communes de la région Ihorombe à l'entreprise Tozzi Green pour 30 ans. De nombreuses études ont montré les pressions et les manipulations exercées par les autorités, à tous les niveaux, pour contraindre les communautés locales à accepter l’exploitation des terres par l'entreprise. De nouvelles informations surgissent.

The World Bank's IFC is set to expand its agriculture-focused investing with two proposed commitments targeting early-stage agri-tech in Africa and a timber and nature-based carbon removal fund managed by Patria Investments in Brazil.

Dubbed the ‘Rima Project’, the initiative centres on the cultivation of 150,000 jojoba trees across a 1.2 million m² desert landscape at Rima in the Wilayat of Haima, within the Block 6 concession of Petroleum Development Oman

BrewDog has sold a 9,300-acre estate in the Scottish Cairngorms to a specialist carbon credit company after ditching plans to go “carbon negative” by planting trees on the site.

Under the agreement, Rainforest Builder will expand its operations to restore at least 15,000 hectares of degraded forest land, plant over 2 million indigenous trees

The Brazilian federal government is studying a proposal to create an agribusiness investment fund (Fiagro) to attract foreign investors willing to become equity partners with farmers seeking to recover and convert degraded pastures.

Germany's largest fertiliser company invests in German fund pursuing large-scale agriculture and forestry projects for carbon credits in Africa.

La CEFC (Australie) et La Caisse (Québec) ont lancé une plateforme agricole diversifiée à grande échelle pour générer des crédits carbone de haute qualité, pour laquelle Rio Tinto sera l’acheteur principal.

La Caisse has invested $200 million alongside a $50 million commitment from the CEFC to create the Meldora platform (Meldora), managed by Australian agriculture and natural capital asset manager, Gunn Agri Partners (GAP). Meldora has purchased its first asset, a broadacre and irrigation farm of more than 15,000 hectares in Central Queensland.

L'American Forest Foundation a signé un contrat de 15 ans avec Netflix pour l'achat de crédits carbone vérifiés générés par son programme Fields & Forests, une initiative visant à convertir des terres agricoles sous-exploitées en forêts exploitables.