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The strategy aims to protect and restore approximately 135,000 hectares of natural forests in deforested landscapes and plant millions of trees in commercial tree farms on another approximately 135,000 hectares of previously deforested and degraded land in the Brazilian Cerrado.

La spoliation des terres de la vallée du fleuve Sénégal est dénoncée par Dr Mbaye Cissé, président du Réseau de la vallée contre l’accaparement des terres et la dégradation de l’environnement.

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« Les terres sont le cœur battant de nos communautés rurales. Quand elles sont accaparées, ce sont des vies entières qui sont bouleversées », a déclaré Mbaye Cissé invitant le gouvernement sénégalais à prendre des mesures concrètes pour enquêter sur ces abus et rendre les terres à ceux qui en dépendent pour vivre.

L'ONG et la filiale de Natixis visent à développer l'offre de solutions climatiques fondées sur la nature, basée sur la gestion durable des terres de Mirova en Afrique, en Amérique latine et en Asie.

The Azuero Reforestation Project is expected to plant trees on 10,000 hectares of degraded tropical forest on the Azuero Peninsula in Panama that has been converted to low-density cattle ranchland over the last century.

“Probably the biggest growth is in working with large institutional investors at large pension funds and insurance companies, and also some quite large family offices,” which manages over 300,000 ha of farmland and timberland in the US, Europe and Australia.

Nigeria's Ekiti State Government has signed an MOU with Nigerian investment company – Cavista Holdings (owners of Agbeyewa Farms Limited) to establish a state-of-the-art cassava farm spanning 100,000 hectares within the State.

Some Iowans believe the greater threat to US farmland is not China but big-money investors — from capital investment funds to tech billionaires, sports celebrities and churches — that are pushing ownership out of reach of Iowa farmers.

Lord Leverhulme’s 1911 concession in the Congo, is now held by an African-run New York-based private equity firm with strong links to global philanthropy.

He urged them to take advantage of their status and position in the community to regularly communicate government policies and programmes to their people, mobilize support for new investments, and act as mediators where required to ensure peaceful co-existence between businesses and communities.

This LDPI Working Paper Series includes work in progress presented at the 2024 Global Land Grabbing Conference in Bogotá, addressing urgent challenges related to land, water, and natural resource grabbing.