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The World Bank's IFC is set to expand its agriculture-focused investing with two proposed commitments targeting early-stage agri-tech in Africa and a timber and nature-based carbon removal fund managed by Patria Investments in Brazil.

Dubbed the ‘Rima Project’, the initiative centres on the cultivation of 150,000 jojoba trees across a 1.2 million m² desert landscape at Rima in the Wilayat of Haima, within the Block 6 concession of Petroleum Development Oman

BrewDog has sold a 9,300-acre estate in the Scottish Cairngorms to a specialist carbon credit company after ditching plans to go “carbon negative” by planting trees on the site.

Under the agreement, Rainforest Builder will expand its operations to restore at least 15,000 hectares of degraded forest land, plant over 2 million indigenous trees

The Brazilian federal government is studying a proposal to create an agribusiness investment fund (Fiagro) to attract foreign investors willing to become equity partners with farmers seeking to recover and convert degraded pastures.

Germany's largest fertiliser company invests in German fund pursuing large-scale agriculture and forestry projects for carbon credits in Africa.

La CEFC (Australie) et La Caisse (Québec) ont lancé une plateforme agricole diversifiée à grande échelle pour générer des crédits carbone de haute qualité, pour laquelle Rio Tinto sera l’acheteur principal.

La Caisse has invested $200 million alongside a $50 million commitment from the CEFC to create the Meldora platform (Meldora), managed by Australian agriculture and natural capital asset manager, Gunn Agri Partners (GAP). Meldora has purchased its first asset, a broadacre and irrigation farm of more than 15,000 hectares in Central Queensland.

L'American Forest Foundation a signé un contrat de 15 ans avec Netflix pour l'achat de crédits carbone vérifiés générés par son programme Fields & Forests, une initiative visant à convertir des terres agricoles sous-exploitées en forêts exploitables.

The American Forest Foundation announced that it has signed a 15-year contract with Netflix, with the entertainment giant committing to purchase verified carbon credits produced through AFF’s carbon project aimed at transitioning underused fields in the US South into forests.

The tree-planting campaign is the first implementation phase of a 30-year project involving 14 classified forests in the Lagunes and Comoé districts, covering a total area of 155,000 hectares, in which up to 12 million trees will be planted in abandoned or unused areas, produced in nurseries managed by local communities and cooperatives.

La République du Congo et la société Aforest Congo ont signé un bail emphytéotique portant sur une superficie de 102 560 hectares en vue de la réalisation d’un projet de plantations forestières et agroforestières industrielles à base d’acacia, d’eucalyptus et d’autres essences