Stop Devoting Our Lands for Food Security of Other Nations
    At least 100 farmers joined a protest in front of the Department of Agriculture in Quezon City led by the members of the Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) in the Philippines such as the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), AMIHAN (National Federation of Peasant Women), UMA (Union of Agricultural Workers), and the PAMALAKAYA (National Federation of Small Fisherfolks of the Philippines). Also present is the Anakpawis partylist and the National Network of Agrarian Reform Advocates (NNARA)-Youth.
    • Asian Peasant Coalition
    • 29 Mar 2012
    Wilmar makin agresif di perkebunan
    Pengembangan lahan perkebunan tebu Wilmar di Papua terkendala perizinan
    • Kontan
    • 25 February 2012
    PZ Cussons' Nigeria palm refinery starts work in Q3
    Its joint venture with Singapore's Wilmar will invest 100 billion naira in Nigeria over the next 5-7 years to develop oil palm plantations that will feed the refinery.
    • Reuters
    • 23 December 2011
    Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol seeks to take over 125-year-old Queensland sugar company MSF Sugar
    The Thai company is seeking to acquire four far north Queensland sugar mills, more than 6,000 hectares of agricultural land and other infrastructure assets owned by MSF Sugar
    • Property Observer
    • 12 December 2011
    Palm oil 'at dawn of new era of expansion'
    The palm oil industry is "at the dawn of a new period of expansion" in part thanks to increasing interest from food groups, which are moving into production to ensure supplies of an increasingly important commodity.
    • Agrimoney
    • 05 December 2011
    Australia: Plantation shutters
    Elders has begun a sale of all its forestry plantations totalling 50,000ha across the country. Much of the land purchased is expected to be planted with sugar cane, bananas or returned to beef grazing, and COFCO and Wilmar International have indicated their interest.
    • The Australian
    • 22 October 2011
    SIFCA remaining positive despite losing CEO in Ivory Coast violence
    "We encourage countries to speed up reforms to modernise land rights," says new CEO.
    • HowWeMadeItInAfrica
    • 28 September 2011
    Côte d'Ivoire : Sifca, une stratégie bien huilée
    Touché au cœur durant la crise postélectorale, le premier groupe privé de la Côte d'Ivoire panse ses plaies. Mais pas seulement. Le voilà qui, déjà, réamorce sa stratégie de croissance en Afrique de l’Ouest, notamment dans l’hévéa et le palmier à huile.
    • Jeune Afrique
    • 21 September 2011
    Sumatran tribe say lands stolen for palm oil
    The Anak Dalam Sungai Beruang say the Wilmar Group subsidiary, Asiatic Persada, forced them off their ancestral homelands.
    • Jakarta Globe
    • 19 September 2011
    New frontier palm oil players look to RSPO
    African and South American palm oil players are flocking to join the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, highlighting a growing trend of the industry’s rapid expansion outside main producing region Southeast Asia
    • Reuters
    • 05 September 2011
    Cargill supplier linked to violence and home demolition in Indonesia
    Newly uncovered customs data unearthed by Rainforest Action Network links agriculture trading giant Cargill to recent acts of violence, intimidation and home demolition against Indigenous villagers on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
    • RAN
    • 29 August 2011
    Shut the gate: why cash-strapped landowners are selling the farm
    Australians do realise the value of what is being sold, a land agent and rural property specialist said, "but their hands are tied because they can't raise the money".
    • SMH
    • 01 August 2011

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