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The Azuero Reforestation Project is expected to plant trees on 10,000 hectares of degraded tropical forest on the Azuero Peninsula in Panama that has been converted to low-density cattle ranchland over the last century.

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

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.

Global institutional investors, led by Canadian pension funds, are piling into the sector, a trend mirroring growing allocations to the farming and related rural sectors worldwide.

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

Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), the largest foreign institutional investor in Australian agriculture, has acquired more than 8,000 hectares of farmland in New South Wales from Duxton Farms for A$70m.

Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan portfolio now includes 130,000 acres of agricultural land globally, from apple orchards to row crop farmland and aquaculture assets, in Australia, Chile, Canada, the US and Portugal

Veripath Farmland Partners has brought its total acreage under management to approximately 120,000 acres through its latest acquisition of 1,246 acres of farmland in the Province of Alberta.

With mortgage rates now sitting at six to seven percent, many investors have turned their attention away from Canadian farmland. “The investors (in farmland) have all run away,” says one real estate agent.

Canada's public worker pension fund manager PSP Investments has made a significant stride in Australia's agricultural sector by acquiring a majority stake in Ellerslie Free Range Farms, a leading egg producer, for $180 million.

The Company intends to expand operations in Sierra Leone and will transfer the same model to Ghana and Liberia and other countries across Africa, where approximately 90% of land suitable for restoration is held by smallholders.