Topics addressed with the Saudi Business Council delegation included the development of joint projects in the field of food security, investments in agricultural land to strengthen long-term food chains, halal certifications and veterinary standards to facilitate exports to Saudi Arabia.

Foreign ownership of agricultural land, once a relatively innocuous regulatory area, has come under scrutiny in recent years as state and federal lawmakers have sought to impose tighter restrictions by passing new laws or amending existing ones.

The public notice covers five 25-year, contracts of 1 million carbon credits each that must be backed by ecological restoration on at least 3,000 hectares within the Amazon biome on both private land and public land with forest concessions.

The farm estates, ranging from 5,000 to 25,000 hectares, will be fully mechanised agricultural settlements equipped with roads, irrigation systems, processing hubs, energy systems, and perimeter fencing lined with thousands of climate-resilient trees planted specifically to generate certified carbon removals.

New report shows international financial corporations fuel environmental destruction and displacement of traditional agrarian communities in world’s most biodiverse savannah

The United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, which gathers UN employees, and pension funds from California are among the investors who have already acquired stakes in the company

Civil society organizations have released a report challenging the dominant narrative advanced by the Africa Development Bank that Africa holds vast expanses of “unused” or “underutilized” land available for large-scale industrial agriculture and other land-based investments.

Ruiz Coffees, a major Arabica producer, and eucalyptus grower Santos & Dias Group have formed Jacurutu Coffee, a joint venture poised to develop what is projected to become the biggest individual Arabica coffee farm on the planet.

One of the most lucrative ways to monetize forest protection is to sell carbon credits. The company Belterra is pursuing that in negotiations with Amazon to implement 10,000 hectares of agroforestry.

The initiative dubbed “Tiisi Tenga” (Land of Trees) is expected to restore about 200,000 hectares of degraded lands across 20 communities, mostly along the White Volta River, with a target to sequester approximately 3.4 tonnes of carbon per hectare.

As African leaders, policymakers and researchers gather for the Sixth Conference on Land Policy in Africa (CLPA), civil society groups are issuing a powerful challenge to the dominant development model that treats African land as “vacant,” “underused,” and open for exploitation.

The National Sugar Development Council and the Lee Group have unveiled plans for the establishment of a large-scale sugar production estate in Taraba State, Nigeria