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14 Dec 2023
Women living near the #Socapalm oil palm plantation in Edéa, Cameroon, are struggling for their land, autonomy and livelihoods. Please read their account and sign in support before 15 December: https://forms.gle/gBKbFCv2Bizzpfbt7 |
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Billionaire Mark Cuban backing $1 billion Congo carbon plan Bloomberg | 13 Dec 2023
A climate startup co-founded by a businessman behind a botched land deal for 400,000 ha in South Sudan has signed a deal to generate $1 billion of carbon credits in the DRC.
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Indonesia prepares 1 mln hectares for sugar factories in Papua Antara | 12 Dec 2023
The government is preparing one million hectares of land in Papua for investors interested in building sugar factories to help Indonesia achieve sugar self-sufficiency, says Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman.
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Large-scale landscape restoration: Spades and the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD announce partnerships PR Newswire | 11 Dec 2023
US-based Spades reaches landscape restoration agreements with Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cote d'Ivoire for projects that span around 10 million hectares and involve the planting of 1.5 billion trees.
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The intractable problem of land grabbing in Cambodia Equal Times | 11 Dec 2023
Local residents who were evicted from their land for a 42,000 hectare sugar cane plantation are all the more bitter now that the unprofitable and poorly financed agricultural project has collapsed.
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Niger, Blue Carbon sign pact on tree planting Guardian | 08 Dec 2023
Governor Mohammed Bago of Nigeria's Niger State has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Blue Carbon for a carbon capture project to plant one billion new trees on 760,000 hectares in the state.
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Les riveraines de la plantation de palmiers à huile Socapalm à Edéa, au Cameroun, luttent pour leurs terres, leur autonomie et leurs moyens de subsistance. Lisez leur témoignage et signez pour les soutenir : https://forms.gle/gBKbFCv2Bizzpfbt7.
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Au Cambodge, l’insoluble problème de l’accaparement des terres Equal Times | 11 dec 2023
La concession économique de 42.000 hectares a été accordée en 2011, et pour une durée de 70 ans, à cinq entreprises chinoises appartenant toutes au même conglomérat, le Hengfu Group Sugar Industry. Douze ans plus tard, les souvenirs malheureux des évictions sont plus amers que jamais pour les habitants de Preah Vihear : pas rentable et mal financé, le projet agricole a périclité.
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Las mujeres que viven cerca de la plantación de palma aceitera Socapalm en Edéa, Camerún, luchan por su tierra, su autonomía y sus medios de vida. Lee su relato y firma en su apoyo: https://forms.gle/gBKbFCv2Bizzpfbt7 |
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