Le collectif « Stop aux tomates industrielles » organise le 16 novembre une marche en France contre un projet de 32 ha de serres chauffées de tomates, représentant l'équivalent de 46 terrains de football. AgroCare (Pays-Bas) est l'un des plus grands producteurs de tomates sous serres d'Europe, également implanté au Maroc et en Tunisie.
Oil trader Trafigura and Singapore's Temasek will produce carbon credits by planting 24 million trees in Colombia's in Orinoco River Basin on 30,000 hectares of land that has been degraded by cattle grazing.
- ESG Today
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11 November 2024
There is an increasing demand for nature-based solutions and real assets are of particular interest to institutional asset owners. But just because something is a natural investment does not always mean it is good for the environment. Or that it is a good investment.
- ImpactAlpha
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29 October 2024
This article and podcast tell the story of women's resistance to oil palm plantations, REDD and a large-scale project for food production (Food Estate) in three villages in Central Kalimantan.
In Congo-Brazzaville, tree planting projects intended for carbon markets have proliferated over the past four years, with large-scale monocultures initiated by oil companies under the seductive term of carbon neutrality and promises of job creation for communities.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will add 46 farms covering 41,554 acres — or about 65 square miles — in eight US states to its vast portfolio, further bolstering its standing as an agricultural “titan.”
- Salt Lake Tribune
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12 October 2024
The downfall of US-based firm African Agriculture is being closely watched by Senegalese communities who have struggled for years for the return of their lands.
- Oakland Institute
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09 October 2024
Une cartographie des abus fonciers décriés par les communautés des villages Apouh à Ngog, Dehane, Ongue et Koukohe a été rendue publique lors d'une rencontre à Yaoundé.
- Tribune Verte
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28 September 2024
The carbon credit reforestation project involves buying up huge swaths of pastureland in Brazil’s Cerrado savanna region and turning them into eucalyptus plantations, which are exacerbating drought conditions.
- Mongabay
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25 September 2024
The investment with the BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (BTG Pactual TIG) - one of the world's largest timberland investment management organizations - focuses on the conservation, restoration, and planting of deforested and degraded properties.
- Business Wire
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24 September 2024
Emotions, tears, and testimonies exposing the dark side of industrial agriculture rocked activities to mark the International Day of Struggle against industrial plantations 2024 celebrations in Uganda.
- Witness Radio
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24 September 2024
Google will buy 50,000 metric tons of carbon removal credits by 2030 from Mombak, which purchases degraded land from farmers and ranchers or partners with them to replant native species in the Amazon rainforest
- Reuters
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19 September 2024
The agreement will cover ecosystem restoration of up to 47,000 hectares of tropical rainforest in the state of Campeche, in the Calakmul region of southeastern Mexico
- ESG Today
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11 September 2024
Farmland LP announces an investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund in Farmland LP’s Vital Farmland III LLC, which will develop Soil Carbon Credits on its 18,500-acre farm portfolio in the US.
- Business Wire
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11 September 2024
Des communautés ivoiriennes demandent à être indemnisées pour les préjudices causés par les activités de SIAT, une société blege spécialisée dans la production de caoutchouc et d’huile de palme.
- Le Monde
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09 September 2024
Agriculture & Natural Solutions Acquisition Corporation announced agreement for a business combination with the iconic Australian Food & Agriculture Company Limited, one of the largest diversified agricultural portfolios in New South Wales
- RFSI Forum
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04 September 2024
In recent years, Gulf economies have tackled their food dependencies not just by importing foodstuffs but through land enclosures, or the purchasing of agricultural land abroad, particularly in the Middle East, North and East Africa (but also as far as the United States and Australia)
Privately-owned Australian Food & Agriculture Company has sold its 13 New South Wales farms spanning 225,405 ha to NASDAQ-listed Agriculture & Natural Solutions Acquisition Corporation for $780 million.
- Beef Central
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02 September 2024
Peasant families are threatened with eviction by Brasil Bio Fuels oil palm plantation company, with the complicity of the state governmen.
Une trentaine d’organisations accusent des banques de soutenir le Groupe Bolloré par leurs concours financiers et leur silence, face aux accusations de violations des droits humains dénoncés par le Conseil d’Éthique du Fonds de pension norvégien dans les plantations de sa filiale, la Société financière des Caoutchoucs (Socfin), au Cameroun.
Silva Capital invests in agricultural land to develop large-scale carbon sequestration projects by reforesting cleared areas, while ensuring the land remains productive for farming.
The Gulf’s dispossession of African land for carbon offset projects is key to its efforts to delay, obfuscate and obstruct addressing climate change in meaningful ways.
- International Viewpoint
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12 August 2024
Le groupe de l’industriel breton va vendre 5 % du capital de la Socfin, sa filiale qui exploite des cultures d’hévéas et de palmiers à huile en Afrique et en Asie. Il a d’ores et déjà renoncé à ses droits de vote.
The transaction marks the World Bank's IFC's first engagement with an institutional timberland investment manager, which is expected to generate carbon credits through nature-based solutions in Brazil.
«Il y a simplement eu des accords de partenariats économiques dans lesquels des entreprises rwandaises sont venues explorer des possibilités d’investissement dans le domaine agricole», a précisé Jean-Patrick Nduhungirehe, ministre rwandais des Affaires étrangères et de la Coopération internationale.
Les riverains du village Apouh, au Cameroun, n’entendent pas reculer sur le replanting annoncé de la Socapalm, tant qu’ils ne seront pas rentrés dans leurs droits.
- La Voix du Koat
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16 July 2024
In the face of intensifying environmental and human rights violations, advocacy groups like Friends of the Earth are calling on the Brazilian and US governments to reign in land speculation and halt the expansion of soy plantations in the Cerrado.
The strategy aims to protect and restore approximately 135,000 hectares of natural forests in deforested landscapes and plant millions of trees in commercial tree farms on another approximately 135,000 hectares of previously deforested and degraded land in the Brazilian Cerrado.
L'ONG et la filiale de Natixis visent à développer l'offre de solutions climatiques fondées sur la nature, basée sur la gestion durable des terres de Mirova en Afrique, en Amérique latine et en Asie.
Representatives of the Awyu and Moi communities from the Indonesian province of West Papua held traditional ceremonies outside the country’s Supreme Court calling for their traditional land and forests to be protected from palm oil plantations. The Awyu have also intervened in appeals taken by two other palm oil companies against a decision to cancel permits that it had previously issued for them to clear Indigenous lands.