Al Dahra, qui exploite 27 000 hectares de terres agricoles dans les gouvernorats de la Nouvelle-Vallée et Ach-Charqiya, va booster sa production et ses exportations de produits agricoles egyptiens
After establishing the scheme in 2012 on land it bought in Uruguay, Harvard sold the land across two deals in 2017 and 2019 worth a combined $450m. But the project is still active today and has sold enough credits to have supposedly offset over 5 million tonnes of CO2 emissions.
Indonesia's new president is literally flooding Papua with new military troops to provide security at a 2 million-hectare food plantation being carved out of jungle outside of Merauke.
- Benar News
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18 November 2024
Le mécontentement de ces riverains venus des villages Apouh à Ngong, Dehane, Ongue et Koukoue a clairement été exprimé au cours d’une conférence de presse organisée le 13 novembre 2024, par et le Réseau des Acteurs du Développement Durable en collaboration avec Green Peace Africa.
- Tribune de l'Info
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16 November 2024
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
Irrigation projects include a US$172mn, 23,000ha project with US-based Valley Irrigation , a €75mn, 13,000 ha project with Spain's Grupo Charmatin, and a US$100mn, 20,000 ha project with US-based Lindsay Zimmatic.
- Sunday Mail
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10 November 2024
Desde 2016, la Red de Actores del Desarrollo Sostenible (RADD) apoya a las comunidades de las aldeas Apouh en Ngog, Dehane, Ongue y Koukohe, en su lucha por el reconocimiento de sus derechos humanos pisoteados por la multinacional que ocupa su patrimonio territorial.
In addition to the greenfield port north of Port Sudan, the project would have included a 400,000-acre agricultural development in the Nile region, hundreds of miles of new roadways, a large free trade zone
- Sudan Tribune
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05 November 2024
A group of non-profits say the German companies may be in breach of national due diligence law, due to a failure to ‘interrogate and act on’ risks in their soya supply chain.
- SustainableViews
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04 November 2024
Institutional investors are driving movement in Australia's poultry farm property market, underscoring sustained demand for agricultural assets that offer steady, passive income.
- Grain Central
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04 November 2024
Paghimutad investigates the social and environmental costs of the controversial 6,000-hectare palm oil plantation owned by construction firm Consunji in Candoni town of Negros Occidental.
- Paghimutad
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03 November 2024
Saudi Agricultural & Livestock Investment Co., controlled by the country’s sovereign wealth fund, is in advanced talks on a transaction that would value Olam Agri Holdings at about $4 billion.
- Bloomberg
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31 October 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
Corte de Delaware firma acuerdo poniendo fin a una demanda colectiva de las comunidades campesinas del Valle del Aguán en Honduras, reconociendo la responsabilidad de la Corporación Dinan y de la Corporación Financiera Internacional (CFI, por violencia armada -que resultó en al menos 40 asesinatos - para realizar el historico acaparamiento para expandir sus operaciones de aceite de palma.
- Criterio.hn
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29 October 2024
The new program “PSN Merauke”, being implemented at a high speed, might become the biggest deforestation project worldwide, is overlapping with customary lands and will directly affect 40,000 indigenous people.
The company Sequoia has obtained a lease over 60,000 hectares for a eucalyptus monoculture project in the Haut-Ogooué province, Gabon. but statements from communities and a survey of more than 1,400 people from the impacted region reveal a total rejection of this plantation project.
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 company intends to cultivate bamboo in phases, beginning with 8,500 hectares, and is applying for carbon credits with Gold Standard.
- The Guardian
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22 October 2024
One Chinese company that has joined Laos' durian rush is Jiarun, an infrastructure builder that has vowed to establish the world's largest durian plantation in Attapeu, a remote province in southern Laos, on 5,000 ha it has secured on a 50-year lease from the Laotian government.
US court orders the IFC to pay nearly $5 million in reparations to members of Honduran land defense movements who faced violence at the hands of security forces linked to a Central American palm oil corporation that received a $30 mn World Bank loan in 2009.
Il est désormais clair qu’African Agriculture ne tiendra pas ses promesses de « développement » de la région. Sur son lit de mort, l’entreprise doit restituer ses terres aux communautés du Sénégal, du Niger et de Mauritanie.
- Oakland Institute
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09 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
Ils s’opposent une fois de plus, et avec détermination, aux travaux de renouvellement sur le même espace, des palmiers de la Socapalm. Face à l’apathie des autorités locales qui ont l'air dépassé, l’arbitrage du Mindcaf devient une nécessité.
- La Voix du Koat
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02 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
La société d'huile de palme demande au gouvernement du Cameroun à intervenir dans le conflit foncier avec les populations du village Apouh à Ngog
- Le Messager
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25 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
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
Les contestations ont de nouveau repris ce matin sur les plantations querellées de la Société camerounaise de palmeraies (Socapalm) d’Édéa situées au village Apouh, au Cameroun
- Haurizon News
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23 September 2024
Los grandes capitales han vuelto su mirada en las tierras de cultivo de Aragón, que, según advierte UAGA-COAG, es el nuevo banco de pruebas de la uberización del campo.
- Heraldo
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22 September 2024
Profiteering companies are lining up to buy water rights in the western US as the water supply dwindles.
- Truthout
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22 September 2024