The case against a carbon credit farm in Madagascar
- New Lines Magazine
- 24 Mar 2025
The Italian multinational Tozzi Green has begun planting trees on land that local residents claim was stolen from them
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A USD$25 billion public-private Ghana climate futures and socio-economic initiative is agreed
- CarbonPura
- 24 Mar 2025
The Ghana Green Guard USD$25 billion climate futures initiative is a public-private collaborative partnership that will generate over 305 million carbon credits across 12 million hectares with projects based on reforestation, regenerative agriculture and other activities.
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State to lease large irrigation schemes to boost food production
- KBC
- 21 Mar 2025
The Kenyan government is planning on leasing at least 350,000 acres of land under its control to private companies as part of plans to increase food production over the next decade.
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IFC Board approves response to CAO investigation related to IFC’s investment in Salala Rubber Corporation in Liberia
- IFC
- 20 Mar 2025
The World Bank unit's "action plan" is an attempt to respond to its own compliance advisor's recommendations on issues ranging from land grabs to sexual exploitation on the plantation.
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Better Cotton still in denial one year after Fashion Crimes report
- Earthsight
- 20 Mar 2025
Better Cotton has released an update to the ‘action plan’ it put in place to curb unsustainable and illegal practices in Brazil’s cotton sector but it fails to even acknowledge the reality of land grabbing that has underpinned the sector’s expansion in recent decades at the expense of native ecosystems and the livelihoods of traditional communities.
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Uzbekistan denies claims of land sales to China
- Times of Central Asia
- 18 Mar 2025
Despite persistent rumors, only 4% of Chinese investment in Uzbekistan goes into agriculture. Foreign investors cannot purchase land, it can only be leased for a maximum of 25 years through open auctions.
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Just Climate secures $175m to invest in agricultural decarbonization
- Valor
- 18 Mar 2025
Al Gore-backed private equity firm Just Climate has secured its first round of funding from two major global investors to begin investing in solutions aimed at reducing agricultural emissions.
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Mormon Church buys three-farm North Star Aggregation
- Grain Central
- 17 Mar 2025
The Utah-based Mormon Church has added a large-scale dryland cropping operation in the renowned Golden Triangle region of northern New South Wales to its growing Australian agricultural portfolio.
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Santander and Atitlan raise €300 million in the first closing of their agricultural investment vehicle ATGRO SCR
- Santander
- 17 Mar 2025
ATGRO SCR already has two assets in its portfolio: an investment in pistachio plantations, with more than 3,200 hectares, and Ecosac, Peru’s second-largest exporter of seedless table grapes.
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Merauke declaration: Indigeneous communities unite to reject PSN projects
- IBP
- 17 Mar 2025
Over 250 indigenous peoples, local communities and various civil society organizations from all over Indonesia announced the Merauke Declaration on March 11-14, 2025 in Merauke, South Papua, rejecting various National Strategic Projects (PSN) throughout Indonesia.
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Notice of sale of farmland in Brazil and dissolution of a specified subsidiary
- Mitsui
- 17 Mar 2025
Mitsui & Co announces the sale of all of the farmland owned by its Brazilian subsidiary Agricola Xingu to the Brazil farming giant SLC Agrícola S.A.
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Three Chinese companies won economic land concessions in Ratanakiri Province
- Weixin
- 16 Mar 2025
According to Cambodian media, the Ratanakiri Provincial Information Bureau recently issued a notice announcing the approval of 17 foreign-funded enterprises to obtain economic land concessions (ELC) in the province, covering agricultural planting, agro-industrial integration and beef cattle breeding. Among foreign companies that have obtained economic land concessions, Vietnamese companies dominate, followed by Chinese and Indian companies. In addition, 10 local companies have also obtained land investment with a total area of 146,366 hectares.
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