ASC Impact

Financial institutions and private investors from the global North are channelling hundreds of millions of dollars into the expansion of industrial tree plantations across Africa.

A Swiss company called ASC Impact GmbH is developing a tree planting project in the Gambela region of Ethiopia covering a total area of 27,500 hectares, with about 20,000 hectares to be planted with eucalyptus and acacia trees.

Une société d'investissement de Saint-Gall, en Suisse, promet de concilier protection du climat, aide au développement et rendement financier grâce à un projet en Éthiopie. Mais une communauté locale tire la sonnette d'alarme.

A Swiss-based investment firm promises to combine climate protection, development aid, and returns with a plantation project in Ethiopia. But a local community is raising the alarm

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

La République du Congo et la société Aforest Congo ont signé un bail emphytéotique portant sur une superficie de 102 560 hectares en vue de la réalisation d’un projet de plantations forestières et agroforestières industrielles à base d’acacia, d’eucalyptus et d’autres essences

The Swiss-based multinational ASC Impact claims to have acquired 22,000 hectares in Ethiopia’s remote Gambela state along the border with South Sudan for large-scale tree plantations, carbon credits and agriculture.

With vast lands conducive to tree growth, Kirchmayer and ASC Impact believe that Africa is ripe for reforestation initiatives that support mass timber production and other green projects.

Pour l’implémentation de ce projet, le groupe suisse sollicite 42 000 hectares de terres agricoles dans le département du Niari