Forestry

Can coffee made of lupine, chickpea and blackcurrant beans taste as good as the real thing? Dutch company Northern Wonder is working with agricultural researchers to make sure the end product resembles real coffee.

The Dutch bank reportedly violated its own ‘zero-tolerance’ policy towards deforestation. Extensive data research conducted by FD in collaboration with NGO Repórter Brasil shows Rabobank’s involvement with illegal deforesters.

New data platform Forest IQ has been created by an alliance of leading not-for-profit organisations. It plans to help impact investors eliminate deforestation from their portfolios.

Campo Capital and Impact Earth will use the investment into their funds to expand their pipeline of forest landscape restoration projects across Latin America.

The investment will help Mombak to scale up its operational and technology systems, as it implements a $100m strategy to reforest parts of the Amazon basin, generating carbon removal credits by capturing atmospheric carbon dioxide. 

The Restoration Seed Capital Facility, co-led by the UN Environment Programme, aims to unlock more private finance for the restoration and preservation of forests in developing countries by backing impact funds in the space.

Busting myths and telling awkward truths, Paul McMahon offers a cautionary tale, demonstrating that ‘the road to hell is paved with good intentions’ in environmentalism as in other walks of life.

Niki Mardas, executive director at Global Canopy, discusses his mission to wake up investors to the damage being done to the world’s forests and natural capital risk

AGRI3 Fund and Rabobank have launched the Renova Pasto initiative providing long-term financing for cattle farmers to support the transition to more sustainable farming practices 

Sustainable land use investments have the potential to become a new asset class but there is a shortage of investable projects. IDH aims to close the gap between motivated investors and innovative project developers.