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Avon Pension Fund to invest a further £150m in natural capital
- Room 151
- 27 November 2024
Avon Pension Fund plans to further allocate between £100m and £150m to assets such as sustainable forestry and agriculture due to the assets return factors.
Carbon Assets unveils $144m Jigawa wetland project
- Leadership
- 27 November 2024
Carbon Assets Nigeria Limited has signed an MOU with Jigawa State for a project that will span 32,000 hectares, plant over 4 million trees, and generate $48 million-$144 million in revenue from the sale of carbon credits.
Procura do exterior por propriedades rurais no Brasil cresce; EUA e Japão lideram buscas
- Moneytimes
- 26 November 2024
Alta do dólar gera aumento de 17% nas buscas de estrangeiros por terras no Brasil nos últimos 3 meses, liderada por EUA, Japão e Reino Unido. Com cerca de 3 milhões de ha formalmente controlados por estrangeiros, a tendencia deve inflacionar ainda mais os preços das terras no país.
Vivre et résister, encerclées par les plantations de Socfin - PODCAST Les luttes des femmes
- WRM
- 25 November 2024
WRM a créé cet épisode avec des témoignages de femmes qui souffrent des impacts des plantations industrielles.
China and the UK lead in Australian ag land foreign ownership
- Sheep Central
- 25 November 2024
Findings from the Federal Government’s latest annual Foreign Ownership of Agricultural Land Register released last week show the total area of ag land with a level of offshore ownership has fallen just 0.3 percent from 47.7 million hectares to 47.56m ha last year.
Niger govt to provide 1.2 million hectares of land for livestock investment
- Tribune
- 24 November 2024
Nigeria's Niger State has promised to make available 1.2 million hectares of land for use as the Federal Government secures a $2.5B livestock investment with Brazil's JBS, one of the world’s largest meat processing enterprises.
Agbeyewa farms steps up to restore Nigeria’s food security dream
- Guardian
- 23 November 2024
Agbeyewa Farms, a subsidiary of Cavista Holding, says its farm in Ekiti State is currently harvesting about 380 hectares but intends to expand to 10,000 ha.
New myths and new colonial land grabs
- ActionAid USA
- 23 November 2024
We must recognize and stop the growing takeover of forest, grassland, and farmland by powerful financial actors, which is being perpetrated in the name of new myths of false solutions to climate change.
Egypte: l’Emirati Al Dahra veut injecter 30 millions $ dans l’agriculture d’ici à 2027
- 20 November 2024
Al Dahra, qui exploite 27 000 hectares de terres agricoles dans les gouvernorats de la Nouvelle-Vallée et Ach-Charqiya, va booster sa production et ses exportations de produits agricoles egyptiens
Harvard set up worthless carbon offsetting scheme that sold millions of junk credits
- TBIJ
- 20 November 2024
After establishing the scheme in 2012 on land it bought in Uruguay, Harvard sold the land across two deals in 2017 and 2019 worth a combined $450m. But the project is still active today and has sold enough credits to have supposedly offset over 5 million tonnes of CO2 emissions.
Conférence « Les Huileries du Congo Belge : Histoire, héritage et réparations »
- CMCLD
- 20 November 2024
A travers le cas des Huileries du Congo Belge, se dessine la responsabilité des entreprises durant la colonisation, de l’accaparement des terres et du travail forcé des populations colonisées. Loin d’être un débat du « passé » nous le verrons, l’exploitation des terres durant la colonisation continue de produire des conséquences encore aujourd’hui.
Kazakhstan to plant forests to reduce carbon dioxide emissions
- Times of Central Asia
- 19 November 2024
The British company SEFE Marketing & Trading Ltd. and Kazakhstan’s SAFC LLP signed an agreement to plant 3.3 million trees across 1,500 hectares in the Almaty region to produce carbon credits