Mexico obtained a decisive ruling in its favor in the international arbitration initiated by the US company Amway, which claimed more than 2.7 billion dollars in damages after the government returned 160 ha of farmland it was operating on to the community of San Isidro.
Liberia's Blue Carbon deal has stalled. Other accords across Africa and elsewhere have also gone nowhere, while the UAE company itself appears to have fallen silent, according to a joint investigation by AFP and Code for Africa
No Oeste da Bahia, a atuação de empresas nacionais e transnacionais do agronegócio tem ampliado a grilagem de terras e a violência contra comunidades rurais. É o que aponta o relatório Especulação Financeira e Impactos Socioambientais do Agronegócio no Cerrado da Bahia, produzido pela Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos, com apoio da Comissão Pastoral da Terra (CPT) e Amigos da Terra.
The project with MeTL will rehabilitate ageing tea estates, convert more than 1,000 hectares into organic plantations and upgrade processing factories to double production capacity. It will also establish at least 15,000 hectares of sisal plantations and a new 200-hectare macadamia plantation.
AGF says the $1 million equity investment from FrugalFP B.V. of the Netherlands will accelerate its development of Africa’s first Smart Circular Agro-Food & Carbon Innovation Vehicle, a 10,000-hectare integrated agroforestry and cassava–sweet potato processing initiative based in Ghana’s Kwahu Afram Plains.
As governments from the Gulf to Beijing quietly buy up farmland around the world, a silent shift in global power is underway – one that few have noticed, but all will feel
A venture set up by Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management has attracted $200 million in new money for a strategy that targets the restoration of land degraded by farming and deforestation.
SLC Agrícola, one of Brazil’s largest producers of soy, cotton, and corn, leased land in southern Piauí from farmers accused of land grabbing by members of the region’s traditional community.
Les Plantations et Huileries du Congo se vantent de leurs vastes terres arables en RDC pour attirer les investissements dans l’huile de palme durable.
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.