The case of Africa's 'vanishing' carbon deals
    Liberia's Blue Carbon deal has stalled. Other accords across Africa and elsewhere have also gone nowhere, while the UAE company itself appears to have fallen silent, according to a joint investigation by AFP and Code for Africa
    • AFP
    • 26 November 2025
    Ukraine businessmen eye investment in poultry industry
    Papua New Guinea's Foreign Affairs Minister says the delegation is going to finalise their numbers to invest their money and effort and everything in building a new poultry farm in Lae.
    • PNG Bulletin
    • 17 February 2025
    Papua New Guinea realising rice dream
    Rigo Rice has agreed to partner with the National Government and Wilmar International Limited in a joint venture to establish a large-scale commercial and irrigated rice farm on 5,000 ha
    • Loop
    • 17 Mar 2024
    The investor building PNG’s agriculture industry
    Israeli-owned Innovative Agro Industry has mobilised $200m-worth of foreign investment to build a network of 16 dairy, poultry, hydroponic and other farms scattered across the country.
    • FDI Intelligence
    • 03 July 2023
    100,000 hectares for Central rice projects
    PNG's Trade Minister says over 100,000 ha of lands can be made available for a rice farming project with investors from the Philippines in the areas of Brown River, Vanapa, Gabadi and Bereina.
    • The National
    • 31 January 2023
    PNG to start major rice project in Central Province
    A team of investors headed by the former Philippines Department of Agriculture Secretary has chosen Gabadi in the Kairuku District of Central Province as the ideal location for a large-scale rice farm.
    • PNG Today
    • 29 January 2023
    Investor keen on rice farming
    A potential large-scale rice farming company in the Philippines will be sending a delegation to Papua New Guinea in November this year to evaluate the country’s potential for large-scale rice farming in Central Province.
    • Post Courrier
    • 03 October 2022
    Unrecognised wealth of customary land
    When will be the time when policies and ideas are centered on helping the population in rural areas to utilize their land for themselves and not hand it over to foreigners to exploit for their own profit?
    • Act Now PNG
    • 10 June 2022
    Podcast: Who owns the companies destroying rainforests in the heart of New Guinea?
    New Guinea, contains the world’s largest planned oil palm plantation. Covering 2,800 square kilometers the Tanah Merah project is nearly the size of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. However, the true owners of the seven concessions that make up the project remain hidden through a shroud of corporate secrecy.
    • Mongabay
    • 13 April 2022
    The true price of palm oil
    Global Witness goes undercover to investigate the growing threat facing Papua New Guinea’s communities and tropical forests from palm oil companies driving widespread deforestation and human rights abuses.
    • Global Witness
    • 08 October 2021
    This Is Our Land: Why reject the privatisation of customary land
    New factsheet from ActNowPNG breaks down 6 myths used to justify the privatisation of customary land, showing how it's not about development but about profits for corporations
    • ActNow PNG
    • 20 July 2021
    Privatisation 'wave' hurts poor as pandemic heightens risks
    A push to privatise land and other resources in countries from Ukraine to Papua New Guinea is hurting indigenous people and the rural poor, while increasing the risks linked to climate change.
    • Reuters
    • 14 July 2020
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