• 'German minister should address human rights'
    • DW
    • 31 August 2012

    Soy farming in Argentina is often linked to land-grabbing and displacement of small-scale farmers. Aid organizations are demanding action from German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner during her trip to South America.

  • Organisations in Asia strategise in opposing land grabbing
    • PANAP
    • 20 July 2012

    Participants from various communities shared documented cases, stories and photos of how large-scale investments of local and foreign owned companies are displacing communities and how people oppose such type of investments.

  • MIFEE: The stealthy face of conflict in West Papua
    • Asian Human Rights Commission
    • 19 July 2012

    Resource conflicts are building in the southernmost part of West Papua, as agribusiness companies stealthily invade the forests, leaving its people dispossessed.

  • Energy, food and climate crises: are they driving an Indonesian ‘land grab’?
    • East Asia Forum
    • 17 July 2012

    The situation in Indonesia, where only a fraction of development projects associated with these transactions are ever implemented, is significant for wider discussions about ‘land grabbing’ around the world.

  • Merauke food estate land likely to shrink by 80%
    • Jakarta Post
    • 12 July 2012

    The Indonesian government’s long-discussed plan to launch a massive food estate in Merauke, Papua, in a bid to boost the nation’s food production is facing uncertainty amid land acquisition problems, a top ministry official says.

  • Ruée sur les actions de Felda, l'opérateur malaisien d'huile de palme
    • RFI
    • 29 June 2012

    La moitié de l'argent levé en bourse sera destiné à la replantation, mais aussi à l'extension des surfaces chez le voisin indonésien et en Afrique, où le coût du foncier est moins élevé qu'en Malaisie.

  • Tiga Pilar Merambah Sawit dan Beras
    • Kontan
    • 13 June 2012

    Perusahaan manufaktur makanan ini rajin mengakuisisi sejumlah perusahaan di sektor pertanian dan perkebunan

  • Investment principles for farmland
    • DTE
    • 31 May 2012

    The PRI for Farmland are supposed to an opportunity for communities and CSOs to assess the performance of investors in farmland against a set of voluntary standards, but fall short of what’s needed to hold companies properly to account.

  • Proyek Bakrie Delano siap di akhir tahun
    • Kontan
    • 26 May 2012

    Bakrie Delano juga menyasar sektor agribisnis seperti karet

  • UN worried by land use in Asia
    • UPI
    • 23 May 2012

    Intensive use of land for food exports and biofuel production must not come at the expense of human rights in Southeast Asia, the United Nations warned.

  • Beleaguered West Papuans left to count the cost of Indonesia's palm oil boom
    • The Guardian
    • 17 May 2012

    Indigenous Papuans are reeling from the cut-price sale of the land and forests that are their lifeblood

  • An agribusiness attack in West Papua: Unravelling MIFEE
    • awasMIFEE
    • 27 April 2012

    The Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate is a vast mega-project, a plan for over a million hectares of plantations and industrialised agriculture that threatens the people and environment across the southern part of West Papua. Indonesian and foreign companies have each claimed their share of the land, and offer the local Malind people next-to-nothing in exchange for the forest that has sustained them for countless generations.

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