The report examines how large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) are increasingly driven by carbon offset projects, particularly within the voluntary carbon market (VCM), and assesses their social and environmental implications in…
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The article argues that land grabbing has not disappeared since its peak in the early 2010s; rather, it persists and has transformed in scope, form, actors, and justifications. Contemporary land…
The report challenges the dominant narrative that Africa has vast “unused” land available for industrial agriculture, carbon projects, and other investments, showing this idea is empirically and ideologically flawed. Most…
The piece assesses progress toward the African Union’s goal of ensuring that women hold 30 % of documented land rights by 2025, a target set to advance gender justice and…
Thirty years after the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, no country in the world has fully delivered on women’s rights. While significant progress has been made…
Since the 2007–08 food crisis, large-scale land acquisitions have given way to a multifaceted “land squeeze” affecting communities worldwide. Today’s pressures on land come from a mix of sources—agribusiness expansion,…
This article provides a look back at the history of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) in Africa over the past 25 years. Africa accounts for about 65% of the world’s uncultivated…
Kenya recently suspended the Northern Kenya Rangelands Carbon Project, once the world’s largest soil carbon removal effort, after a court ruled that its conservancies were established without sufficient public participation,…
Africa’s first national park was created 100 years ago by the Belgian colonial state in the Congo, and since then hundreds more have been developed – but in many areas…
Each carbon credit that large corporations like Microsoft buys is supposed to offset one tonne of the emissions these companies generate burning fossil fuels. This is one of the main…