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Socfin's response on Apouh case
- BHRRC
- 29 April 2025
Response to an inquiry from Business & Human Rights Research Centre
Biomas launches first large-scale reforestation project in Brazil’s Atlantic Rainforest
- One Stop ESG
- 29 April 2025
Biomas, a Brazilian reforestation company backed by Vale, Marfrig, Suzano, Santander Brasil, Itaú, and Rabobank, has launched its first major project: planting over 2 million trees across 1,200 hectares of Atlantic rainforest in Bahia state.
Nigeria: Untapped goldmine that can address farmers, herders feud, unlock livestock potentials
- Nigerian Tribune
- 29 April 2025
Benue State has secured funding for a 1000-hectare fodder project which is for export to the United Arab Emirates, and they plan to increase that to 6,000 hectares within the next 2 to 3 years.
Brazil's government aims to raise $2 billion in financing with new Eco Invest auction
- Reuters
- 29 April 2025
The government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expects to raise $2 billion in financing through a new auction as part of the Eco Invest Brazil program, focusing on initiatives to recover 1 million hectares of degraded pastures.
Laos: New Forests buys into Burapha
- Financial Standard
- 29 April 2025
With 6000 hectares, the land comprises conservation areas, a plywood mill, and a voluntary carbon project focused on plantation afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation issuing carbon credits
Lee Group announces $35m agricultural investment in Nasarawa
- Business Day
- 29 April 2025
The multinational conglomerate plans to develop a 5,000 hectares rice farm and a sugar factory to complement its existing sugarcane plantation in Jigawa State, as well as to expand into sesame and peanut production
Tanzania: BBT gets massive AfDB 347bn/- boost
- Daily News
- 28 April 2025
Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa yesterday launched the Building Better Tomorrow (BBT) Programme’s Project I, which focuses on large-scale farming, with a funding boost of 129.71 million US dollars from the African Development Bank.
Nigeria: Ekiti women protest over alleged destruction of farmlands by agric firm
- Premium Times
- 28 April 2025
The women of the Odo-Oro community in Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State protested over the alleged destruction of their farmlands by an agriculture firm, Agbeyewa Farms. “They are destroying our lands, they are cutting down our cocoa farms, cutting down our palm trees and destroying what is left of what our forefathers gave to us."
Sierra Leone: Maconteh communities protest over unpaid land leases by agroforestry firm
- Care Times
- 25 April 2025
Six communities in Maconteh Chiefdom, Port Loko District, including Rogbessh, Faidugu, Rokama, Robat, and Kirima have staged a peaceful protest against agroforestry company Rewinding BKM for failing to pay 2024 land lease fees.
Inside the controversial tree farms powering Apple’s carbon neutral goal
- MIT
- 25 April 2025
The tech behemoth is betting that planting millions of eucalyptus trees in Brazil will be the path to a greener future. Some ecologists and local residents are far less sure.
Uzbek farmers say they're being forced to surrender land to Chinese firms
- Radio Free Europe
- 23 April 2025
Farmers in Uzbekistan say the government is forcing them to surrender land to Chinese businesses under the guise of state-backed development, taking thousands of hectares of fertile cotton and wheat fields out of the hands of locals.
Australia: Tasmanian farmland is seeing a hedge-fund buying spree—locals fear climate investors not tourists
- DMN
- 23 April 2025
The bigger question—one Tasmania must answer soon—is how much of its food-bowl can be outsourced to balance sheets before community cohesion snaps.