UK

Ces Kenyans réclament justice pour leurs terres volées sous la colonisation
- Vice
- 24 October 2022
« Ils sont les pionniers de l’accaparement des terres »
Kisumu inks Sh30bn agriculture investment deal with UK firm
- The Star
- 04 October 2022
The partnership is between UK investment group United Green and Kisumu County 42 Lake Ventures Company will include primary farms that will integrate with 100,000 hectares of surrounding farming communities via a unique smallholder farmer scheme.
US farmland investment trust seeks to raise £200m in London IPO
- IP&E
- 12 September 2022
Intl Farming Investment Management is seeking to raise £200m as it lists a US farmland investment trust on the London Stock Exchange
Revealed: The developers behind Scotland’s carbon credit ‘green rush’
- The Ferrett
- 18 August 2022
Scotland’s richest man, an oil giant, an earl, and private equity and property firms are among those developing carbon credit projects that critics say are pushing up land prices and allowing companies to “greenwash” their image.
Le palmier du sang de PHC à Lokutu
- L'Avenir
- 07 July 2022
On se croirait en train de suivre un film d’horreur. Le dimanche 26 juin 2022, une équipe des gardes industriels, G4S et la police est descendus à la division Bolembo où elle constante qu’une quantité de régimes et fruits de tâches de noix furent déplacés.
Scotland: Call for a 'public interest test' for big land sales
- Scottish Farmer
- 04 July 2022
Proposal comes as part of recommendations to support land and carbon markets so they work to the public’s benefit, alongside the second part of a major report into Scotland’s changing land market.
Large-scale land acquisition for carbon: opportunities and risks
- SEFARI
- 28 May 2022
It is clear that natural capital markets and wider investor interest in carbon offsetting and green agendas are driving market interest in Scottish land and in particular land values for plantable land
Phatisa and DFIs co-invest in Lona Group
- Africa Global Funds
- 23 May 2022
Phatisa, together with a consortium of development finance institutions, has acquired a significant minority stake in South African-based fruit producer and exporter, Lona Group.
Scotland’s billionaires are turning climate change into a trophy game
- The Atlantic
- 20 May 2022
A net-zero land rush is sweeping the country, and both locals and wealthy “green lairds” are trying to buy in
Signs of harmful projects with financing from development institutions are spotted in Uganda
- Witness Radio
- 19 April 2022
Witness Radio surveyed some projects in Uganda funded by development banks and found agony, illegal evictions, abject poverty, environmental degradation, and loss of life among others.
Carbon-offsetting has 'transformed' the Scottish land market
- Insider
- 12 April 2022
Scotland’s land market has been transformed as corporate buyers swoop in for farmland in an effort to offset carbon emissions.
Despite fears of foreign control, Aussies own the lion's share of agriculture
- QCL
- 28 Mar 2022
When total foreign freehold and leasehold interests are combined China has the largest holding of 2.3pc, shadowed by the United Kingdom (2.2pc), the USA (0.8pc), Netherlands 0.7pc, and Canada with 0.6pc.