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The 25-year deal would enable Chestnut Carbon to plant trees on 60,000 acres of land across Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas

Through its two carbon credit agreements with Microsoft, the company will work on restoring a total of 33,000 hectares of land in parts of the Amazon and Atlantic forests.

Les divergences sont en voie de se dissiper aux Fermes de La Téranga (20 000 hectares dans le nord du Sénégal) grâce à une série de rencontres d'harmonisation entre la direction et les travailleurs.

The world's leading private equity fund has just invested in Hasfarm Holdings, a flower export giant in Da Lat, Vietnam, marking a new step in the investment trend in the agricultural and food technology sector in Vietnam.

The biofuel project led by Uganda'a Jitmat and Face Power of the US will cultivate sweet sorghum on 6,000 ha using a nucleus farm and surrounding smallholder farming model.

Japan's No.2 crude oil refiner, Idemitsu Kosan, will begin a trial plantation of the non-edible oilseed tree crop Pongamia in Australia to assess its potential as a feedstock for aviation fuel, in cooperation with the US company Terviva.

"Brazil cannot achieve its emission reduction targets by simply reducing deforestation. We need to restore (deforested) areas by creating concessions" of land for the carbon market, says Para governor Helder Barbalho.

A US subsidiary of Saudi dairy giant Almarai Co. is “taking advantage of Arizona’s failure to protect its precious groundwater resource,” the lawsuit says.

US-based Agrovision says this acquisition is “the first major step” in establishing “a 52-week cherry supply strategy,” and that the company intends to plant up to 500 hectares of proprietary cherry varieties in Chile.

After years investing in farms overseas, the Saudi government is now stepping up efforts to attract foreign investors to its domestic agriculture sector

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.

We must recognize and stop the growing takeover of forest, grassland, and farmland by powerful financial actors, which is being perpetrated in the name of new myths of false solutions to climate change.