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Abidjan declaration: 1st African youth forum on land
- 30 April 2025
The first Young Africans' Forum on Land was held in in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire to address concerns about the lack of land security for small farmers in Africa.
Socfin's response on Apouh case
- BHRRC
- 29 April 2025
Response to an inquiry from Business & Human Rights Research Centre
REDCIP: defender tierras frente a Ley del Despojo
- Servindi
- 29 April 2025
Ley recien aprobada em Perú promueve la formalización de predios individuales superpuestos en territorios comunales ocupados entre 2004 y 2015, abriendo paso al despojo sistemático de tierras ancestrales y debilitando la cohesión social de más de 2,000 comunidades campesinas. Campesinos exigen la inconstitucionalidad de la Ley.
Biomas launches first large-scale reforestation project in Brazil’s Atlantic Rainforest
- One Stop ESG
- 29 April 2025
Biomas, a Brazilian reforestation company backed by Vale, Marfrig, Suzano, Santander Brasil, Itaú, and Rabobank, has launched its first major project: planting over 2 million trees across 1,200 hectares of Atlantic rainforest in Bahia state.
Nigeria: Untapped goldmine that can address farmers, herders feud, unlock livestock potentials
- Nigerian Tribune
- 29 April 2025
Benue State has secured funding for a 1000-hectare fodder project which is for export to the United Arab Emirates, and they plan to increase that to 6,000 hectares within the next 2 to 3 years.
Brazil's government aims to raise $2 billion in financing with new Eco Invest auction
- Reuters
- 29 April 2025
The government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expects to raise $2 billion in financing through a new auction as part of the Eco Invest Brazil program, focusing on initiatives to recover 1 million hectares of degraded pastures.
Laos: New Forests buys into Burapha
- Financial Standard
- 29 April 2025
With 6000 hectares, the land comprises conservation areas, a plywood mill, and a voluntary carbon project focused on plantation afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation issuing carbon credits
Governo Federal anuncia o 2º Leilão Eco Invest, voltado à recuperação de terras degradadas
- Secom
- 28 April 2025
Com objetivo de atrair capital privado para financiar a recuperação de 1 milhão de hectares de terras degradadas, o Programa brasileiro pretende levantar R$ 10 bilhões, inclusie por meio dos novos Fundos para o agronegócio (FIAGROS). Combinando recursos públicos e do BID como catalizador, espera-se destravar os investimentos internacionais no agronegócio e em terras.
Área na APA Triunfo do Xingu é leiloada para recuperação florestal
- Para Terra Boa
- 28 April 2025
A empresa Systemica, quem tem o BGT Pactual como sócio, venceu o primeiro leilão no Brasil para reflorestar 30 mil ha de terras públicas da APA Triunfo do Xingu, com direito de explorar comercialmente os serviços ambientais e gerar créditos de carbono por 40 anos.
Tanzania: BBT gets massive AfDB 347bn/- boost
- Daily News
- 28 April 2025
Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa yesterday launched the Building Better Tomorrow (BBT) Programme’s Project I, which focuses on large-scale farming, with a funding boost of 129.71 million US dollars from the African Development Bank.
Nigeria: Ekiti women protest over alleged destruction of farmlands by agric firm
- Premium Times
- 28 April 2025
The women of the Odo-Oro community in Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State protested over the alleged destruction of their farmlands by an agriculture firm, Agbeyewa Farms. “They are destroying our lands, they are cutting down our cocoa farms, cutting down our palm trees and destroying what is left of what our forefathers gave to us."
Brasil fictício: Propriedade de terra autodeclarada excede área do país em um Pará
- O Globo
- 27 April 2025
Cadastro digital obrigatório no país, o próprio dono do imóvel informa os limites da sua fazenda, se tem nascentes, mata nativa e áreas a serem protegidas, o que vem gerando inúmeras fraudes. São 139,7 milhões de hectares das áreas sobrepostas, o que equivalente a quatro Alemanhas.