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Another 40,000ha of New Zealand sheep and beef farms sold for forestry – report
- Agriland
- 11 June 2025
A new report shows that sales of beef and sheep farms, particularly for carbon farming, are continuing “at an alarming rate”.
New Zealand: More than 95,000 hectares of farms sold to overseas buyers for forestry conversion
- Stuff
- 16 May 2025
"These companies are in it for the short-term to make a lot of money from carbon credits then flick them before the plantations become a liability”
New Zealand outlines rules to curb large-scale carbon farming
- Bloomberg
- 04 December 2024
New Zealand has outlined new rules aimed at slowing the rate at which farmland is being converted into forestry for carbon credits.
New Zealand: Hawke’s Bay apple industry: Dutch firm buys 60ha orchard; two more orchards hit market
- NZ Herald
- 17 August 2024
Hawke’s Bay apple orchards have been changing hands amid a shake-up to the industry, with the latest significant sale featuring a Dutch newcomer buying a 62-hectare Ongaonga block.
Stafford Capital makes first investment in carbon-offset fund
- IPE
- 12 August 2024
UK local government pension schemes-backed Stafford Carbon Offsets Opportunities Fund has invested $60m to acquire degraded pastureland in south-western Brazil and made a $12m investment in three properties totalling 1,914ha in New Zealand.
MEAG extends its Natural Capital footprint in New Zealand
- MEAG
- 25 July 2024
MEAG, the asset manager of Munich Re Group, acquired its first apple orchard in New Zealand on behalf of a client pursuing a New Zealand growth strategy in agriculture.
Millions more trees isn’t the climate fix New Zealand thought
- Bloomberg
- 28 May 2024
Since 2019, the country has added some 175,000 hectares of tree plantations, almost all the fast-growing, carbon-sucking Pinus radiata pine
Roc partners to buy slice of NZL assets
- Farmers Weekly
- 19 January 2024
Australia-based specialist private markets investment manager Roc Partners is to acquire 25% of the portfolio of rural land assets of New Zealand Rural Land Company for about $44 million.
Mata Reports looks at the Māori Carbon Collective
- Mata Reports
- 21 November 2023
Mata Reports investigates growing concerns around the group and its elusive managing director, as well as carbon farming’s impact on Māori communities.
Cashed-up carbon farming fund lifts portfolio to 106,000ha
- AFR
- 15 October 2023
Pastoral Partners Australia, a carbon farming and sustainable grazing fund owned by New Zealand infrastructure investor Morrison & Co, has lifted the size of its portfolio to over 100,000 hectares.
New Zealand: Swiss company’s plan for Otago sheep farm turned down
- Otago Daily Times
- 02 October 2023
An application for a Swiss company to buy an Otago sheep farm to convert to forestry for carbon credits has been declined, making it one of the first decisions to be made under updated legislation.
Carbon forestry is pushing up farm prices out of reach
- Stuff
- 22 August 2023
A report commissioned by Beef and Lamb said the amount of farm land converted to carbon farming was twice what the Climate Change Commission showed in a 2021 demonstration path would be needed for New Zealand’s path to net-zero.