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

No Oeste da Bahia, a atuação de empresas nacionais e transnacionais do agronegócio tem ampliado a grilagem de terras e a violência contra comunidades rurais. É o que aponta o relatório Especulação Financeira e Impactos Socioambientais do Agronegócio no Cerrado da Bahia, produzido pela Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos, com apoio da Comissão Pastoral da Terra (CPT) e Amigos da Terra.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Foreign ownership of agricultural land, once a relatively innocuous regulatory area, has come under scrutiny in recent years as state and federal lawmakers have sought to impose tighter restrictions by passing new laws or amending existing ones.

The public notice covers five 25-year, contracts of 1 million carbon credits each that must be backed by ecological restoration on at least 3,000 hectares within the Amazon biome on both private land and public land with forest concessions.

The farm estates, ranging from 5,000 to 25,000 hectares, will be fully mechanised agricultural settlements equipped with roads, irrigation systems, processing hubs, energy systems, and perimeter fencing lined with thousands of climate-resilient trees planted specifically to generate certified carbon removals.

Empresários em posse da área respondem a ações judiciais por sobreposição a territórios indígenas e de comunidade tradicional; SLC assinou contrato para produzir até 2039 na fazenda que engloba a área em disputa

New report shows international financial corporations fuel environmental destruction and displacement of traditional agrarian communities in world’s most biodiverse savannah

The United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, which gathers UN employees, and pension funds from California are among the investors who have already acquired stakes in the company

Civil society organizations have released a report challenging the dominant narrative advanced by the Africa Development Bank that Africa holds vast expanses of “unused” or “underutilized” land available for large-scale industrial agriculture and other land-based investments.

"Pour Socfin, la lutte contre les violences passe par la promotion des femmes à des positions hiérarchiques supérieures."

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.

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.

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 » ?

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.

Le nouveau gouvernement entend rendre une partie des terres spoliées sous l’ancienne présidence à leurs propriétaires. Le collectif Tany s’en réjouit en appelant toutefois à la prudence, notamment face aux investissements dans le domaine des crédits carbone.

Cette recherche est centrée sur 4 agro-industries que le RADD peut valablement analyser car il accompagne, depuis des années, les associations de femmes riveraines qui leur opposent une résistance farouche.

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.

Au Maroc, le gouvernment met à disposition des terrains du domaine privé de l’État, y compris aux investisseurs étrangers, à travers des locations de longue durée pouvant varier entre 17 et 40 ans

The National Sugar Development Council and the Lee Group have unveiled plans for the establishment of a large-scale sugar production estate in Taraba State, Nigeria

The project has allocated 10,000 hectares in Kadana State, Nigeria, for maize, soybean and poultry production, 7,000 of which is for the crops. The project will later expand to five other states of Nigeria.

La note d’orientation présentée au gouvernement fixe un cap : reconnaître la terre agricole comme un « bien commun stratégique ».

The new government must take care to prevent the grabbing of Malagasy land, particularly by foreign actors, during the transition-refoundation period

In Nigeria, CSOs “call on government at all levels to enforce strict regulations on large-scale land acquisitions and agricultural projects. We want guarantee community consultation and consent before the allocation of farmland for industrial operations.”