Chinese Forest-risk Financing

 The Rainforest Action Network commissioned a report titled "Chinese Banks' Forest-risk Financing: Financial Flows and Client Risks."

The report provides an overview of the financing of forest-risk companies engaged in six deforestation-risk commodities in Brazil, Central and West Africa, and Southeast Asia by Chinese financial institutions, which are the second largest financiers of forest-risk companies covered by the database.  Between January 2016 and April 2020, Chinese financial institutions provided about $15 billion in forest-risk loans and underwriting services.  Central and West Africa accounted for $2.8 billion of this total, mainly for rubber and timber.  

Chinese Investments in Cote d'Ivoire (in French)

Cahiers Agricultures published in January/February 2017 an article titled "Les investissements publics chinois dans les filieres agricoles ivoiriennes" by Xavier Auregan, Center for Research and Geopolitical Analyses at the University of Paris.

The paper analyses investments from China in Ivorian agriculture, which involve various stakeholders and their conflicting strategies. These investments in Cote d'Ivoire are exclusively related to cocoa and rubber and include two large Chinese companies in the food and trade industries.