Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr this week signed the law liberalising the lease of private lands by foreign investors., which aims to encourage investors to build industrial estates and factories as well as tourism and agriculture projects in the archipelago.

L'American Forest Foundation a signé un contrat de 15 ans avec Netflix pour l'achat de crédits carbone vérifiés générés par son programme Fields & Forests, une initiative visant à convertir des terres agricoles sous-exploitées en forêts exploitables.

The American Forest Foundation announced that it has signed a 15-year contract with Netflix, with the entertainment giant committing to purchase verified carbon credits produced through AFF’s carbon project aimed at transitioning underused fields in the US South into forests.

The agreement involves Qatar securing and irrigating farmlands in Ghana, allocating them to farmers for large-scale cultivation, and subsequently purchasing the produce for export to Qatar.

The UK's AgDevCo has made a $7 million investment in Planting Naturals, a producer of organic palm oil in Sierra Leone that operates a vertically integrated model, sourcing fruits from both its own plantations and a growing network of smallholder farmers.

The tree-planting campaign is the first implementation phase of a 30-year project involving 14 classified forests in the Lagunes and Comoé districts, covering a total area of 155,000 hectares, in which up to 12 million trees will be planted in abandoned or unused areas, produced in nurseries managed by local communities and cooperatives.

The Civil Society Oil Palm Working Group of Liberia has called on the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil to immediately reinstate the stop-work order on Golden Veroleum Liberia, citing unresolved compliance issues and unfulfilled conditions related to land use and community rights.

President William Ruto has moved to mediate the dispute over Yala Swamp in Siaya County, where local communities are clashing with investors over control of the vast farmland.

O conglomerado japonês estuda aportar R$ 10 bilhões (US$ 1,8 bilhão) na joint venture Raízen, diluindo a participação da brasileira Cosan e da britânica Shell, diante do endividamento que chegou a R$ 49,2 bilhões no último balanço. Nos últimos 12 meses a ações da Raízen perderam 61%, e R$ 20,4 bilhões em valor de mercado.

The controlling shareholders of Brazil sugar and ethanol producer Raizen SA, which controls 1.3 million hectares of sugar cane plantations, are in talks to sell a stake to Mitsubishi Corp. as part of a plan to raise capital.

Under the agreement, community development (education, healthcare, livelihoods and infrastructure) will be linked to the company's profits in Sierra Leone.

"Existing disputes related to land lease, environmental concerns and support to the community have remained challenging," the Chief Minister says