Elaia, the agricultural platform of Atitlan, acquires Ecosac, a Peruvian company specializing in grape and canned pepper production with 2,500 hectares currently under production and another 2,500 in reserve.
The Gulf’s dispossession of African land for carbon offset projects is key to its efforts to delay, obfuscate and obstruct addressing climate change in meaningful ways.
A state-owned palm oil company and an industry association have begun early work to push a vast new plantation strategy in Sulawesi, one of Indonesia’s largest islands. The proposal includes aspirations for production of a form of environmentally friendly fertilizer hope that it will enable producers to apply for climate finance incentives, despite the deforestation implied in the plan.
In a major move towards resolving long-standing tensions in Malen Chiefdom, Sierra Leone’s Chief Minister, Dr. Moinina David Sengeh, convened a dialogue on 4 August 2024 where he assured the community of the Government’s commitment to renegotiate the contract with Socfin Agricultural Company.
President of the Philippines says CP Group committed an additional USD1.5 billion in investments to the country, starting with a 10,000-hectare modernized mega farm, during meeting at the presidential palace.
Twenty organisations and allies of communities affected by the Socfin group’s oil palm and rubber plantations express their dissatisfaction with the Norges Bank Investment Management's decision not to divest from Bolloré SE and Compagnie de l’Odet SE
Since 2010, the unpleasant experience, pain and suffering from the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate program have not ceased and have continued to pile up
The transaction marks the World Bank's IFC's first engagement with an institutional timberland investment manager, which is expected to generate carbon credits through nature-based solutions in Brazil.
Across the US, large investment firms are driving up farmland prices. In many cases, farmland is sold at prices multiple times the regional average. The cost increases have hit young and beginning farmers the hardest.
Farmland LP, a California-based investment firm, has announced the acquisition of three properties in Northern California’s Sacramento Delta across 2,625 acres for a combined price tag of $35.6 million.
Civil society groups working on land-related issues and women land rights defenders from different communities in Uganda are meeting in Kampala to devise ways to strengthen women’s participation and decision-making in land governance.
Deregulation and financialisation, carbon offset and industrialised food systems are all factors that threaten equitable land access for farmers, says Nettie Wiebe, a founding member of La Via Campesina from Canada
