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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...