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UAE plans to invest USD 30mln for rice production in Angola
- ANGOP
- 19 December 2023
E20 Investment of UAE plan to use 5,000 hectares in Angola for rice cultivation and 500 hectares for avocado production.
Cameroon: Women determined to recover their lands occupied by Socapalm/Socfin oil palm company
- WRM
- 19 December 2023
The Afrise women's association launched an international petition to stop the replanting of oil palm monocultures around their homes and over the grave sites of their ancestors.
Saudis put Western Australia’s largest grain operation up for sale
- AFR
- 19 December 2023
The largest grain growing operation in Western Australia is expected to fetch close to $200 million after its owners, the Saudi Arabian government and a Perth-headquartered agricultural fund decided to sell.
Ações judiciais ligam JBS à destruição de Resex mais desmatada da Amazônia
- Publica
- 19 December 2023
JBS, outros frigoríficos e pecuaristas são réus em 17 ações civis públicas acusados de compra ilegal de gado e invasão das terras da Reserva Extrativista (Resex) Jaci-Paraná.
Why the future of farming is taking lessons from commercial real estate
- QUartz
- 18 December 2023
Farmland LP buys climate-resilient land, gets it certified organic, selects profitable crops, and picks up the tab on equipment. Then it rents fields to local farmers who want to increase production.
Klimat X announces BP Carbon Trading Limited as first funding partner of restoration project
- Investing News
- 18 December 2023
The funding agreement secured with a British Petroleum subsidiary for US$2.5 million will support the planting and development of 5,000 ha of degraded land in Sierra Leone
4e édition de la Caravane pour la terre, l’eau et l’agroécologie paysanne
- ENDA Pronat
- 18 December 2023
Après les éditions de 2016, 2018 et 2021, la Caravane pour la terre, l’eau et l’agroécologie paysanne a repris la route du 06 novembre au 1er décembre 2023.
Autralia: Costa family backs $120m raising for Riverina almond project
- Commercial Real Estate
- 17 December 2023
The Costa family has joined other wealthy families and an institutional investor in piling into a $120 million equity raising to fund the acquisition and development of three irrigation properties.
The slow massacre: East Phillips and North Desha Counties, Arkansas, then and now
- Arkansas Review
- 16 December 2023
How US pension fund TIAA purchased farmland with a legacy of racism and murder
COP28 : le capitalisme vert contre l’Afrique
- Europe Solidaire
- 14 December 2023
La COP28 ouvre une course effrénée à l’accaparement des forêts africaines par des multinationales présentes sur le marché des crédits carbone.
RDC: Kongo central, les communautés de Kolofuma réclament leurs terres spoliées par la société JVL
- Acutalité CD
- 13 December 2023
Plusieurs villages en République démocratique du Congo réclament leurs terres suite aux accords signés entre leurs ancêtres et la Société Jules Van Lancker (JVL) pendant époque coloniale
Billionaire Mark Cuban backing $1 billion Congo carbon plan
- Bloomberg
- 13 December 2023
A climate startup co-founded by a businessman behind a botched land deal for 400,000 ha in South Sudan has signed a deal to generate $1 billion of carbon credits in the DRC.