The Regenerate European Sustainable Agriculture Fund will invest €40 million to establish blueberry farms in Central and Southern Portugal under the name Regen Blue
A showdown is looming in South Sudan over the draft land ownership policy as the Central Equatoria State Assembly rejected the “land belongs to the people” policy, claiming it is a secret deal to legalize land grabbing.
- Sudans Post
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15 February 2024
The Agriculture and Livestock Ministry has opened up 21,000 acres of idle land belonging to the National Youth Service and Tana and Athi Rivers Development Authority for commercial leases to boost food security.
- The Nation
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14 February 2024
New report by EIA shows cacao and palm oil companies have systematically contributed to clearing at least 13,000 hectares between 2012 and 2021 in Peru’s most forest-rich regions of Loreto and Ucayali.
- Mongabay
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13 February 2024
The world’s largest manager of farmland assets, Nuveen Natural Capital, has taken advantage of Treasury Wine Estates’ decision to downsize its commercial wine business after acquiring water rights and 434 ha of its orchards.
The communities will lease a minimum of 10,000 hectares of land for 50 years to establish commercial farms and farm estates for mechanised production of rice, sesame, soya and maize
- Society Now
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10 February 2024
“I’m there to make money,” Heilberg says. This time with carbon credits.
- REDD-Monitor
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09 February 2024
A 20% year-over-year increase of agricultural exports from Laos in 2023 was largely on the back of Chinese plantations, according to trade officials, meaning that the country will reap few of the profits.
The rubber plantation, spanning 245,000 hectares along the Sinoe River, offers a unique combination of secondary forest and previously cultivated land, now poised for transformation into a biochar production hub
- Accesswire
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09 February 2024
Cibus Capital intends to buy degraded land and generate revenue with regenerative agriculture, sustainable timber, carbon credits or by making it more productive before selling it.
- Carbon Pulse
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09 February 2024
The case stems from accusations lodged by the Djiboutian Ambassador in 2018, asserting that Karuturi neglected to meet the terms of agricultural agreements signed in 2011 and 2012 for activities in Ethiopia.
The National Sugar Development Council in Nigeria has secured new investors to expand the sugar industry by 20,000 hectares as part of the council's implementation of the Nigerian Sugar Masterplan.