A global body that monitors and provides data on large-scale land acquisitions has revealed that carbon offsets are ‘false’ climate solutions. In its latest report, the Land Matrix surveyed carbon ...

The Land Matrix, a collaboration between the International Land Coalition and several universities, just published a new report on land deals for carbon offsets. Carbon offsets are “credits” sold to ...

According to the Land Matrix public database, Africa is targeted by large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) more than any other world region. Since 2000, many Chinese, Emirati, Lebanese, American and ...

Governments and companies in the developed world are buying up huge tracts of land in poorer countries for cheap access to natural resources. A new site visualizes the scale of the problem.

An agricultural field in the Sudanese capital Khartoum's district of Jureif Gharb on November 11, 2019. ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP A report released on Monday, May 16, by Land Matrix Initiative (LMI), a ...

The data has been sourced from an international coalition of NGOs and research groups called the Land Matrix project who have published the world’s largest database of land deals struck since 2000.

Kerstin Nolte works in a project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). She is part of the team at GIGA working on the database management and the ...

Nicaragua has experienced a boom in gold mining over the last few years, with concessions covering millions of hectares of land — often near protected areas and on Indigenous territory. The government ...