AGF says the $1 million equity investment from FrugalFP B.V. of the Netherlands will accelerate its development of Africa’s first Smart Circular Agro-Food & Carbon Innovation Vehicle, a 10,000-hectare integrated agroforestry and cassava–sweet potato processing initiative based in Ghana’s Kwahu Afram Plains.
As governments from the Gulf to Beijing quietly buy up farmland around the world, a silent shift in global power is underway – one that few have noticed, but all will feel
A venture set up by Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management has attracted $200 million in new money for a strategy that targets the restoration of land degraded by farming and deforestation.
SLC Agrícola, one of Brazil’s largest producers of soy, cotton, and corn, leased land in southern Piauí from farmers accused of land grabbing by members of the region’s traditional community.
Les Plantations et Huileries du Congo se vantent de leurs vastes terres arables en RDC pour attirer les investissements dans l’huile de palme durable.
Topics addressed with the Saudi Business Council delegation included the development of joint projects in the field of food security, investments in agricultural land to strengthen long-term food chains, halal certifications and veterinary standards to facilitate exports to Saudi Arabia.
Foreign ownership of agricultural land, once a relatively innocuous regulatory area, has come under scrutiny in recent years as state and federal lawmakers have sought to impose tighter restrictions by passing new laws or amending existing ones.
The public notice covers five 25-year, contracts of 1 million carbon credits each that must be backed by ecological restoration on at least 3,000 hectares within the Amazon biome on both private land and public land with forest concessions.
The farm estates, ranging from 5,000 to 25,000 hectares, will be fully mechanised agricultural settlements equipped with roads, irrigation systems, processing hubs, energy systems, and perimeter fencing lined with thousands of climate-resilient trees planted specifically to generate certified carbon removals.
Empresários em posse da área respondem a ações judiciais por sobreposição a territórios indígenas e de comunidade tradicional; SLC assinou contrato para produzir até 2039 na fazenda que engloba a área em disputa
New report shows international financial corporations fuel environmental destruction and displacement of traditional agrarian communities in world’s most biodiverse savannah
The United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, which gathers UN employees, and pension funds from California are among the investors who have already acquired stakes in the company
