Global property consultancy Knight Frank says 83% of the wealth managers in Kenya it asked about investment trends said their clients are now investing in farmland primarily for food production.
The Lagos Aquaculture Centre for Excellence initiative – a joint venture between the Lagos State government and Dula Agro-Services Limited, located on 35 hectares of land in Igbonla, Epe, is designed to serve as production facility for fish fingerlings, processing, and as an off-take facility for all fish farmers in Lagos
President William Ruto has defended the government’s decision to partner with three private firms in the revival of the multi-billion-shilling Galana Kulalu irrigation project.
Finance Minister Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson says the government will acquire vast tracts of land to establish large-scale plantation farms and restore annual production to one million metric tonnes.
"These companies are in it for the short-term to make a lot of money from carbon credits then flick them before the plantations become a liability”
The agreement, one of the largest single buyer agreements to date, will see Microsoft receive carbon credits from a pipeline of individual Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation (ARR) projects worldwide.https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/microsoft-to-purchase-18m-tons-of-carbon-credits-from-rubicon-carbon/
Protest by community members opposed to a soil carbon project on Indigenous-owned grazing land prevented the signing of a 40-year lease on some 68,000 hectares of land as part of the much larger Kajiado Rangeland Carbon Project.
Beneath the promises of food security and economic growth lie allegations of land grabbing, human rights violations, environmental damage, and financial mismanagement—particularly linked to the company’s operations in West and Central Africa.
Company's response to an inquiry from Business and Human Rights Research Centre
The government described the reports of protests by some cocoa farmers over farm settlements in the state as "misleading" and "emotionally distorted."
How farmland became a pillar of South Yorkshire Pension Authority's net-zero plans.
The Dangote Sugar Refinery, located in Kwame-Danso in Ghana’s Bono Region, will reportedly bring 25,000 hectares of farmland under irrigation to support industrial-scale sugarcane cultivation.
