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10 Apr 2025
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Kyrgyzstan to plant 10 million trees in Issyk-Kul via carbon credit initiative Times of Central Asia | 09 Apr 2025
The joint initiative with UK-based Valor Carbon aims to plant over 10 million trees across 25,000 hectares in the Issyk-Kul region, with the potential to attract up to $180 million in climate financing.
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Concessions granted for large-scale durian farming in Laos Vientiane Times | 09 Apr 2025
Authorities in Attapeu province have awarded concessions to three Lao companies, enabling them to grow durian on hundreds of hectares of land as part of the government’s broader effort to boost the cultivation of fruit on a commercial basis.
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Uganda: Palm oil project investor in land grab Witness Radio | 09 Apr 2025
Witness Radio has petitioned the Buganda Land Board (BLB) to investigate and address concerns regarding forced land evictions of Kabaka’s subjects and tenants of BLB, whose land is targeted for oil palm expansion in Buvuma district.
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Liberia: Gov’t prosecutes Mary Boimah, others, in 2024 SRC protest New Dawn | 07 Apr 2025
The Liberian government has taken legal action against former union leaders of the Salala Agricultural Workers Union of Liberia following violent protests at the Salala Rubber Corporation in Margibi County on June 27, 2024.
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World's largest deforestation project destroys forests for bioethanol fuel, sugar and rice in Indonesia National Observer | 07 Apr 2025
Indonesia plans to clear forests about the size of Belgium to produce sugarcane-derived bioethanol, rice and other food crops, potentially displacing Indigenous groups who rely on the land to survive.
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‘Carbon grabs’ are the new ‘land grabs’ in Africa, says Bank chief Heritage Times | 06 Apr 2025
The head of the African Development Bank says big foreign companies are not paying Africa fairly for its role in fighting climate change. He calls this unfair practice “carbon grabs.”
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Australia: Chris Corrigan leads investors in $500m farm sale to Canadian fund AFR | 06 Apr 2025
A venture backed by Canada’s PSP Investments has bought out its co-investors in the Kooba aggregation in New South Wales, which has 30,000 hectares of cotton, crops and livestock and 1,400 hectares of almond orchards.
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‘I bought their dream’: How a US company’s huge land deal in Senegal went bust The Columbian | 06 Apr 2025
Rusting pipes in a barren field and unpaid workers are what remain after a U.S. company promised to turn a huge piece of land in Senegal — about twice the size of Paris — into an agricultural project and create thousands of jobs.
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Palm oil company uses armed forces, tear gas against protesting villagers in Cameroon Mongabay | 04 Apr 2025
Cameroonian villagers protesting on March 25 against plantation company Socapalm's replanting of oil palm trees on disputed land were dispersed with tear gas by local law enforcement.
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Farmers protest alleged land grab for Rice Project in Nasarawa Radio Nigeria | 02 Apr 2025
More than 2,000 farmers from Obi and Awe Local Government Areas in Nasarawa State, Nigeria, have staged a peaceful protest against the alleged seizure of their farmlands by a traditional ruler for a government-backed rice project.
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Nigeria: Ondo Govt secures 10,000 hectares of land for $200 million agriculture project Naira Metrics | 28 Mar 2025
The Ondo State Government has secured 10,000 hectares of land in the Southern Senatorial District for a $200 million agricultural project.
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Land grab: Tozzi Green’s carbon plantations in Madagascar REDD Monitor | 26 Mar 2025
Dama Jean Dare Ratolonjanahary, community activist and co-founder of the Comite de Defense des Terres, told New Lines that, “Carbon credits are an excuse to continue destroying nature in exchange for money”.
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Cameroun : le chef du village Apouh dénonce l’accaparement des terres par la Socapalm et l’inaction de l’État Camer Press Agency | 09 avr 2025
La principale revendication porte sur la restitution d’un espace vital estimé à environ 3000 hectares.
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Crise foncière à la Socapalm d’Apouh : le Préfet de la Sanaga-Maritime rétablit les faits La Voix du Koat | 04 avr 2025
Le Préfet de la Sanaga-Maritime accuse M. Ditope Mercure, chef de 3e degré du village Apouh, d’être à l’origine de la contestation et de bloquer volontairement le dialogue. Sa Majesté Ditope rejète ces accusations.
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Sueños marchitos en Senegal: cuando las promesas agrícolas de inversión extranjera no alimentan a nadie En Pelotas | 01 abr 2025
El periodista Jack Thompson investiga el caso del fallido proyecto agrícola de African Agriculture en Niéti Yone, Senegal, una historia que comienza con ambición, promesas de empleo y desarrollo... y acaba con deudas, tierras improductivas y una comunidad fracturada.
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TIAA, Landgrabbing & Deforestation In Brazil
NSJHR, FOE US, ActionAid | Online | 15 Apr 2025
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