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27 Nov 2025
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The case of Africa's 'vanishing' carbon deals AFP | 26 Nov 2025
Liberia's Blue Carbon deal has stalled. Other accords across Africa and elsewhere have also gone nowhere, while the UAE company itself appears to have fallen silent, according to a joint investigation by AFP and Code for Africa
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African Development Bank approves $24 million to advance private sector-led agro-industrial growth in Tanzania AfDB | 25 Nov 2025
The project with MeTL will rehabilitate ageing tea estates, convert more than 1,000 hectares into organic plantations and upgrade processing factories to double production capacity. It will also establish at least 15,000 hectares of sisal plantations and a new 200-hectare macadamia plantation.
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African Golden Food secures $1m investment for climate-smart agro-industrial in Africa GBN | 25 Nov 2025
AGF says the $1 million equity investment from FrugalFP B.V. of the Netherlands will accelerate its development of Africa’s first Smart Circular Agro-Food & Carbon Innovation Vehicle, a 10,000-hectare integrated agroforestry and cassava–sweet potato processing initiative based in Ghana’s Kwahu Afram Plains.
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How control over crops may decide who holds power in a warming world Geographical | 25 Nov 2025
As governments from the Gulf to Beijing quietly buy up farmland around the world, a silent shift in global power is underway – one that few have noticed, but all will feel
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Al Gore venture gets $200 million from firms including RBC Bloomberg | 25 Nov 2025
A venture set up by Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management has attracted $200 million in new money for a strategy that targets the restoration of land degraded by farming and deforestation.
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SLC produces soy on land owned by individual accused of land grabbing in Brazil Reporter Brasil | 25 Nov 2025
SLC Agrícola, one of Brazil’s largest producers of soy, cotton, and corn, leased land in southern Piauí from farmers accused of land grabbing by members of the region’s traditional community.
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Saudi Arabian businessmen interested in investing in Romania's agricultural and livestock sector actmedia | 24 Nov 2025
Topics addressed with the Saudi Business Council delegation included the development of joint projects in the field of food security, investments in agricultural land to strengthen long-term food chains, halal certifications and veterinary standards to facilitate exports to Saudi Arabia.
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Brazil’s Ruiz Coffees partners with Santos & Dias for 5,500-hectare arabica coffee farm GAI | 18 Nov 2025
Ruiz Coffees, a major Arabica producer, and eucalyptus grower Santos & Dias Group have formed Jacurutu Coffee, a joint venture poised to develop what is projected to become the biggest individual Arabica coffee farm on the planet.
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Regrowing the Amazon Bloomberg | 16 Nov 2025
One of the most lucrative ways to monetize forest protection is to sell carbon credits. The company Belterra is pursuing that in negotiations with Amazon to implement 10,000 hectares of agroforestry.
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Tree Aid Ghana implements carbon project to restore degraded lands GNA | 15 Nov 2025
The initiative dubbed “Tiisi Tenga” (Land of Trees) is expected to restore about 200,000 hectares of degraded lands across 20 communities, mostly along the White Volta River, with a target to sequester approximately 3.4 tonnes of carbon per hectare.
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Debunking the myth of land abundance AFSA, OI, PLAAS | 11 Nov 2025
As African leaders, policymakers and researchers gather for the Sixth Conference on Land Policy in Africa (CLPA), civil society groups are issuing a powerful challenge to the dominant development model that treats African land as “vacant,” “underused,” and open for exploitation.
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Au Cameroun, le labyrinthe de Socfin Public Eye | 27 nov 2025
C’est un cas qui illustre les limites des dispositions légales ainsi que les difficultés des communautés locales à rendre responsables les multinationales qui opèrent sur leur terrain.
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PIPOC 2025 : PHC réaffirme le rôle de la RDC dans l’industrie mondiale de l’huile de palme durable Radio Okapi | 24 nov 2025
Les Plantations et Huileries du Congo se vantent de leurs vastes terres arables en RDC pour attirer les investissements dans l’huile de palme durable.
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Qui a le droit de posséder des terres en Afrique ? UNECA | 15 nov 2025
L’une des séances plénières les plus attendues de la Conférence sur la politique foncière en Afrique (CLPA) de cette année a réuni des intervenants de divers horizons professionnels pour débattre du thème suivant : « Continuités et divergences coloniales : qui a le droit d’accéder à la terre et d’en être propriétaire en Afrique » ?
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