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15 Feb 2024
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Report shows Peru failed to stop Amazon deforestation for palm oil and cacao Mongabay | 13 Feb 2024
New report by EIA shows cacao and palm oil companies have systematically contributed to clearing at least 13,000 hectares between 2012 and 2021 in Peru’s most forest-rich regions of Loreto and Ucayali.
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Australia: Ag giant Nuveen gulps down Treasury’s unwanted vineyard portfolio AFR | 10 Feb 2024
The world’s largest manager of farmland assets, Nuveen Natural Capital, has taken advantage of Treasury Wine Estates’ decision to downsize its commercial wine business after acquiring water rights and 434 ha of its orchards.
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Nigeria: Niger Foods signs 10,000 ha land lease agreement for farm estate with 12 communities under the Bida Emirate Society Now | 10 Feb 2024
The communities will lease a minimum of 10,000 hectares of land for 50 years to establish commercial farms and farm estates for mechanised production of rice, sesame, soya and maize
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The return of the capitalist of chaos: Philippe Heilberg and a US$1 billion carbon deal between the Democratic Republic of Congo and dClimate REDD-Monitor | 09 Feb 2024
“I’m there to make money,” Heilberg says. This time with carbon credits.
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Laos to reap little profit from growth of farm exports RFA | 09 Feb 2024
A 20% year-over-year increase of agricultural exports from Laos in 2023 was largely on the back of Chinese plantations, according to trade officials, meaning that the country will reap few of the profits.
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Karbon-X Partners with Revive Terra in pioneering green development project in Liberia Accesswire | 09 Feb 2024
The rubber plantation, spanning 245,000 hectares along the Sinoe River, offers a unique combination of secondary forest and previously cultivated land, now poised for transformation into a biochar production hub
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Ex-Blackrock executive prepares land-focused natural capital strategy at food investor Carbon Pulse | 09 Feb 2024
Cibus Capital intends to buy degraded land and generate revenue with regenerative agriculture, sustainable timber, carbon credits or by making it more productive before selling it.
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Investors bank on African timber for sustainable building boom The Star | 17 Jan 2024
With vast lands conducive to tree growth, Kirchmayer and ASC Impact believe that Africa is ripe for reforestation initiatives that support mass timber production and other green projects.
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Land governance critical to the realization of the African Continental Free Trade Area, say experts AfDB | 23 Nov 2023
Expansion of intra-African trade and the resulting demand for goods such as agricultural goods will affect land systems, increasing large-scale land acquisitions by public and private actors.
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Defend the Defenders : Stop à la criminalisation des défenseur.euse.s du droit à l’alimentation FIAN Belgium | 30 nov 2023
Le magazine annuel de FIAN Belgium présente des témoignages sur la repression contre les defenseurs des terres face à des entreprises comme SIAT, PHC/Feronia ou Socfin/Bolloré
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