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In the shade of the trees
- WOZ
- 05 February 2026
A Swiss-based investment firm promises to combine climate protection, development aid, and returns with a plantation project in Ethiopia. But a local community is raising the alarm
Canadian capital, Rwandan fields: Building profitable farms with social impact
- Horti Daily
- 05 February 2026
What started as a modest 10-hectare pilot farm in 2020 has now scaled to over 220 hectares under cultivation, with 500 hectares in total under ownership or lease.
A Michigan pension fund’s failed coffee farm bet highlights private-market risks
- WSJ
- 05 February 2026
A Michigan pension fund wanted to grow the second-largest coffee farm in Hawaii. What happened there demonstrates the perils of investing public workers’ savings in private markets.
Green Lions seeks Verra approval for carbon credits on 8,289 ha in eastern Cameroon
- Business in Cameroon
- 05 February 2026
Led by Terraformation, Green Lions is launching on an initial area of 8,289 hectares located within the communal forests of Ndélélé and Bétaré-Oya where it will combine native forest restoration and cocoa-based agroforestry.
Indonesia: PT HIP conflict continues with land occupation by community
- People of Buol
- 05 February 2026
Dozens of residents from Buol Regency, Central Sulawesi staged a land occupation on a 149-hectare plot of land that they say has been illegally occupied and planted with oil palms by the company PT. Hardaya Inti Plantation.
Six Malagasy civil society organisations have written to Verra to complain about Tozzi Green’s carbon plantation land grab in Madagascar
- REDD-Monitor
- 04 February 2026
Local communities have been protesting against the company’s operations for more than a decade.
Conflit foncier entre la Socapalm et ses riverains : le MINAT veut y voir clair
- Equinoxe TV
- 03 February 2026
Au Cameroun, les riveraines de la Socapalm Edéa se disent "écoutées" par des représentants de l'administration territoriale
CEFC, River Capital take punt on huge Tiwi carbon project
- AFR
- 03 February 2026
Australia’s River Capital will invest more than $80 million in a 30,000 hectare eucalyptus plantation project in the Tiwi Islands that is set to become one of the country’s largest nature-based carbon ventures.
Brazilian development bank picks funds for climate programme
- New Private Markets
- 03 February 2026
For land-based investments, the Patria Latam Reforest Fund I from Pátria Investimentos and the Amazon Reforestation Fund II from Mombak will each receive as much as 500 million reais from BNDESPar.
Premier 44,000 ha freehold & 49,000 cattle, grass-fed operation
- Mexico Business
- 02 February 2026
UK-based Brown&Co is trying to sell a large-scale 44,000 ha cattle farm in the Paraguayan Chaco, “La Huella” it acquired in 2008.
Ikea owner Ingka plans to double New Zealand forestry land to 100,000ha
- NZ Herald
- 01 February 2026
The investment arm of Ikea’s parent company says it does not want to be seen as a carbon trader, as it storms ahead with farmland purchases despite resistance from local communities.
In a year, foreign investors bought another 71,000 acres of Michigan agricultural land
- mlive
- 01 February 2026
Foreign investors increased their holdings of property, now owning nearly 46 million acres of farmland throughout the US. This accounts for 3.6% of all agricultural acres and 2% of all land in the United States.