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«Les investisseurs potentiels ont raison de douter des projets de l’entreprise, qui sont à la fois extravagants et néfastes pour les communautés locales», assène le porte-parole de la Convergence globale des luttes pour la Terre et l’Eau en Afrique de l’Ouest, Massa Koné.

“I’m there to make money,” Heilberg says. This time with carbon credits.

Local herders and pastoralists communities are contesting the ownership of at least 20,000 hectares located at AAGR’s Les Fermes de la Teranga (LFT) farm in Senegal

African Agriculture Holdings, qui a fait son entrée à la bourse NASDAQ le 7 décembre 2023, prévoit d'exploiter plus de 2,9 millions d'hectares en Afrique de l'Ouest pour produire des aliments pour bétail et des crédits carbone destinés aux marchés internationaux.

New York-based African Agriculture Holdings went public on the NASDAQ stock exchange on December 7, 2023. This new business venture plans to operate on over 2.9 million hectares in Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal to produce animal feed for export and sell carbon credits for corporations seeking to offset their carbon emissions.

America is seeing more and more of its most fertile land snapped up by China and other foreign buyers, yet problems with how the US tracks such data means it’s difficult to know just how much.

The fund's targeted niche strategy is to buy smaller farms, as it views this particular segment as a pocket of opportunity – too large for non-institutional scale farmers, and too small for corporate scale investors.

In October 2023, Arkansas became the first US state to enforce foreign farmland ownership laws when it ordered Syngenta to sell 160 acres of farmland.

African Agriculture Holdings Inc. - which took over 20,000 ha in northern Senegal formerly held by Senhuile - will export its entire alfalfa crop to South Korea

Farmland LP buys climate-resilient land, gets it certified organic, selects profitable crops, and picks up the tab on equipment. Then it rents fields to local farmers who want to increase production.

A climate startup co-founded by a businessman behind a botched land deal for 400,000 ha in South Sudan has signed a deal to generate $1 billion of carbon credits in the DRC.

"Nous avons l’intention d’accélérer nos activités opérationnelles suite à notre récente fusion et cotation au Nasdaq, ce qui permettra à African Agriculture de devenir la première société agricole africaine cotée aux États-Unis."