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A study shows non-farmers bought more than half the farms and estates sold on the open market in England in 2023, with private investors involved in 28% of transactions and institutional investors in 13% – a rise of 10% on 2022 levels.

Empresas vendem crédito de carbono no mercado voluntário, enquanto País demora para criar ambiente regulado; União Europeia e Nova Zelândia saem na frente

L’accaparement des terres à des fins environnementales - des projets de compensation carbone et de biodiversité, ainsi que des initiatives de conservation ou de production de carburants propres - représentent environ 20 % des transactions foncières à grande échelle, selon l’IPES

Tree planting in Africa is said to help save the climate and fight poverty, but silently, it is resulting in hunger and poverty. Farmers in Uganda have had enough. They're cutting down climate trees - and turning them into coal.

Dans un rapport publié jeudi, l’ONG EPER critique un projet d’accaparement de terres en Sierra Leone. Il aurait été cautionné par une entreprise genevoise et se ferait au détriment des populations locales

An investigation into a large-scale tree plantation project by Swiss Church Aid HEKS/EPER and four Sierra Leone NGOs reveals that numerous farming families who own the land have apparently not agreed to the project in the manner prescribed by law.

Nouveau rapport explosif sur un cas d'accaparement de terres, impliquant des entreprises suisse et canadienne, pour des credits carbones en Sierra Leone

The farmland in Portugal will be acquired from Borges Agricultural & Industrial Nuts, one of the largest nut processing companies in Spain.

Nigeria's Edo State Government has signed an agreement with two major fossil fuel companies providing them with 6,000 hectares of land from the state's protected forest reserves for large-scale tree planting to produce carbon credits

This LDPI Working Paper Series includes work in progress presented at the 2024 Global Land Grabbing Conference in Bogotá, addressing urgent challenges related to land, water, and natural resource grabbing.

Over 500 land parcels spanning 4,885 hectares — the size of nearly 6,000 football fields — across 10 states have been approved for tree plantation ever since the Green Credit Programme kicked off in the country.

The Mount Kei project seeks to reforest degraded lands in Uganda with a mix of teak on 18,000 hectares and indigenous tree species on 20,000 hectares. The teak will be harvested for construction material, while the rest of the project will generate carbon credits.