Jarch Capital

The return of the capitalist of chaos: Philippe Heilberg and a US$1 billion carbon deal between the Democratic Republic of Congo and dClimate
- REDD-Monitor
- 09 February 2024
“I’m there to make money,” Heilberg says. This time with carbon credits.
Billionaire Mark Cuban backing $1 billion Congo carbon plan
- Bloomberg
- 13 December 2023
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.
The new scramble for Africa
- Al Jazeera
- 20 September 2013
On Al Jazeera’s talk show South2North, Redi Tlhabi debates the new scramble for Africa with former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano, Nigerian politician Nkoyo Toyo and Philippe Heilberg, a land investor from the US.
Our man in Sudan
- AJE
- 30 May 2013
An ex-Wall Street banker jets off to South Sudan to show how investors are rushing to Africa in a modern-day land-grab. Watch Al Jazeera 'Witness'.
The secret sale of a country
- The Times
- 02 July 2011
Investors, such as Jarch Management and Nile Trading and Development, are buying up huge tracts of fertile land in Southern Sudan.
South Sudan threatened by land grab
- NPA
- 23 Mar 2011
Four months before South Sudan becomes an independant nation nine percent of the country has been targeted by investors, a Norwegian People's Aid report reveals.
Food and water drive Africa land grab
- UPI
- 29 April 2010
As African leaders, many out to line their own pockets, sign away their people's land to foreigners, the continent's people face not having enough food to eat.
FACTBOX: Foreign forays into African farming
- Reuters
- 20 Mar 2010
A move by Madagascar's army-backed leader to nix a huge South Korean farming deal has exposed the risks of such ventures in Africa.
Appropriation et concentration de droits fonciers à grande échelle-Le cas du Soudan
- AGTER
- 19 January 2010
Accaparement des terres - cas du Soudan - par AGTER
Foreign investors snap up African farmland
- Der Spiegel
- 30 July 2009
Because of the political sensitivity of the modern-day land grab, it is often only the country's head of state who knows the details. Der Spiegel investigates.
Die große Jagd nach Land
- Der Spiegel
- 27 July 2009
Regierungen und Investmentfonds erwerben in Afrika und Asien Ackerland, um Nahrungsmittel anzubauen – ein lohnendes Geschäft, weil die Preise rasch steigen. Das Milliarden-Monopoly führt zu einem modernen Kolonialismus, dem sich viele arme Länder notgedrungen unterwerfen.
The food crisis continues - in the form of a global scramble for lucrative farmlands
- CounterCurrents
- 17 June 2009
It's a tsunami of land deals and, as all of the experts who have studied the phenomenon have agreed, no nation is truly prepared for its implications.