Pumping public dollars into the destructive industrial meat sector is neither climate-resilient nor climate-smart, say Kari Hamerschlag and Peter Stevenson. It's also fuelling land grabbing.
"Reducing the risk of land conflicts and offering opportunities for investments are critical for Sierra Leone," says the Bank's representative
“Growing row crops is an excellent way for Fresh Del Monte to leverage its idle lands,” said Mohammad Abu-Ghazaleh, chairman and CEO, Fresh Del Monte.
Canada’s largest pension fund manager has acquired a 75 percent stake in HFE Berries Perú SAC – owner of 100 percent of the Olmos field farming operation which has a planted area of 397 hectares.
US pension fund manager TIAA provides an introduction to carbon markets for land-based investments in order to evaluate how carbon can be incorporated into land-based investment strategies.
In a bid to boost local palm oil production in the country and also support the Federal Government’s backward integration policy, JB Farms Limited has unveiled its new 10,000 hectares of oil palm plantation in Ore, Ondo State.
Open Letter to the RSPO Board of Governors, RSPO Secretariat, Investigation and Monitoring Unit, Human Rights Working Group
- Green Scenery
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30 May 2022
In the palm oil industry, image control is a means of survival, and what is said can be even more nefarious than what is done.
Kenyan aquaculture company Victory Farms, East Africa’s largest commercial fish farmer, has raised $5 million in private equity funding to expand operations into Rwanda, Tanzania and the DRC.
- Farmers Review Africa
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29 May 2022
A community of fishermen and acai gatherers are suing Cargill in federal court in Brazil, accusing the company of stealing their land, acquiring it through third parties bearing allegedly fake land titles.
The expansion of industrial agriculture in Brazil has been an international affair, linking pension funds, university endowments, and major financial actors across the world.
- Phenomenal World
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28 May 2022
It is clear that natural capital markets and wider investor interest in carbon offsetting and green agendas are driving market interest in Scottish land and in particular land values for plantable land