After establishing the scheme in 2012 on land it bought in Uruguay, Harvard sold the land across two deals in 2017 and 2019 worth a combined $450m. But the project is still active today and has sold enough credits to have supposedly offset over 5 million tonnes of CO2 emissions.
A travers le cas des Huileries du Congo Belge, se dessine la responsabilité des entreprises durant la colonisation, de l’accaparement des terres et du travail forcé des populations colonisées. Loin d’être un débat du « passé » nous le verrons, l’exploitation des terres durant la colonisation continue de produire des conséquences encore aujourd’hui.
The British company SEFE Marketing & Trading Ltd. and Kazakhstan’s SAFC LLP signed an agreement to plant 3.3 million trees across 1,500 hectares in the Almaty region to produce carbon credits
- Times of Central Asia
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19 November 2024
The Indonesian Ministry of Investment is planning to transform the Food Estate in Merauke, South Papua, into an integrated sugar industry hub.
- Business Post
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19 November 2024
The UAE company's investment will target land reclamation in Toshka, where it currently holds a 67,000-acre land bank and is negotiating the acquisition of an additional 80,000 acres.
Through its company, Acelen Renewables, the UAE's Mubadala Capital is building a biofuel refinery in the Brazilian state of Bahia which it will supply with 80 million macaúba trees planted on 200,000 hectares of degraded land.
- Mubadala
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19 November 2024
Indonesia's new president is literally flooding Papua with new military troops to provide security at a 2 million-hectare food plantation being carved out of jungle outside of Merauke.
- Benar News
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18 November 2024
Tajikistan leased around 18,000 hectares of its land to China for cotton, rice, grain, and corn cultivation for a 49-year contract. The agreement was part of a broader initiative to strengthen economic ties between the two countries.
- Global Voices
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18 November 2024
Des multinationales de l’agroalimentaire, du luxe et de la grande distribution sont accusées de s’accaparer de plus en plus de surfaces cultivables. Mais ce sont surtout les petites combines des exploitants les plus avides, au sein même de la profession, qui freinent l’installation des jeunes agriculteurs.
The attorney general of the US state of Arizona is set to launch legal proceeding in the next two weeks against the Saudi dairy company Almarai over groundwater pumping on two farms in the state.
- Arabian Gulf Business Insight
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14 November 2024
President Bio called on the leadership of Socfin Agricultural Company and the stakeholders of Sahn Malen Chiefdom to foster dialogue, collaboration, and mutual respect
- State House
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14 November 2024
Entre enero y agosto de 2024, inversores extranjeros, principalmente de Estados Unidos, Japón, Brasil y Argentina, adquirieron 135.888 hectáreas de tierras agrícolas uruguayas.
- Revista Chacra
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13 November 2024