Indonesia

MVP Group eyes Davao farm
- PhilStar
- 22 May 2013
Hong Kong-based First Pacific Co. Ltd’s agribusiness unit PT Indofood is eyeing 30,000 hectares of land in Davao Oriental, Philippines, for palm oil production.
Appropriations foncières et modèles agricoles
- CIRAD
- 24 April 2013
Ce numéro spécial des Cahiers Agricultures analyse la place accordée au foncier et aux diverses formes d’agriculture dans les stratégies des Etats, des investisseurs et des communautés d’acteurs locaux.
Asian palm-oil planters head to West Africa
- Bloomberg
- 03 April 2013
Suitable land for palm-oil cultivation is running out in top producers Malaysia and Indonesia, which now account for about 85 percent of the global output. Wilmar is among several companies searching for land in West and Central Africa.
Ironic Survival
- Engage Media
- 22 Mar 2013
Video on the struggles of the Malind of Papua to defend their lands from the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate.
Cargill expanding palm-oil plantations in Indonesia
- WSJ
- 22 Mar 2013
“We are aggressively looking for new areas in Sulawesi, Central Kalimantan and South Sumatra that are environmentally safe to expand our oil-palm footprint,” says president-director of the company’s oil-palm plantations in Sumatra.
Agrarian problems emerge as corporations use MIFEE project for capital accumulation.
- awasMIFEE
- 02 Mar 2013
People in Indonesia consider the food crisis as an excuse, deliberately created so that corporations could assert control over the necessary business which is central to most people’s lives.
Wilmar buys 53.7% stake in Noble’s Indonesia palm venture
- Today Online
- 23 February 2013
Wilmar International has taken a majority stake in a palm plantation venture in Indonesia’s Papua owned by Noble Group, giving the world’s biggest palm oil supplier a toehold in the province where it also hopes to grow sugar cane.
Indonesia plans to expand palm oil, cocoa plantations to Nigeria
- Xinhua
- 13 February 2013
"Nigeria has offered land for us, no matter how large we need," says Indonesian Industry Minister MS Hidayat
Land grabbing in a forgotten country – MIFEE-affected villager visits Netherlands
- Awas MIfee
- 11 February 2013
‘Feed Indonesia, then feed the world’. Backed by this slogan Indonesia companies, and companies from South Korea, China and Singapore as well, are buying land in the Indonesian province of West Papua in order to grow crops.
Indonesia’s Salim Group enters Brazil
- Jakarta Globe
- 29 January 2013
Indofood Sukses Makmur is planning to acquire a 50 percent stake in a plantation company in Brazil through its subsidiary Indofood Agri Resources, as the company expands its sugar plantation business.
Au Liberia, la résistance paysanne s'organise entre les palmiers à huile
- AFP
- 20 January 2013
Leurs terres cédées par le gouvernement aux planteurs malaisiens et indonésiens, des paysans du Liberia dénoncent des accords qui les ignorent: après 15 ans de guerre civile, des nouvelles luttes s'annoncent.
Destroying local livelihoods with Mifee
- Jakarta Globe
- 20 January 2013
“We don’t want to work for palm oil companies, we want our forest back,” says Christianus Ungkujay