• UN wants to send Special Rapporteur to Indonesia to investigate MIFEE
    • West Papua Media Alerts
    • 17 October 2011

    The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights is being invited to visit Indonesia in connection with MIFEE, the Merauke Integrated Energy and Food Project in West Papua, a mega-project of 1.6m ha for agri-business purposes.

  • Producteurs d'huile de palme cherchent terrains
    • Jeune Afrique
    • 07 October 2011

    Soumis à des contraintes d’espace, les groupes asiatiques multiplient les accords en Afrique. Si le pari est parfois risqué, les perspectives de la demande mondiale en huile de palme leur laissent entrevoir un fort retour sur investissement.

  • Indonesian farmers win ‘land grab’ legal battle
    • ucanews.com
    • 22 September 2011

    Four indigenous farmers won a legal battle Monday to have two controversial articles struck from a plantation law which they say prevent them from attempting to reclaim lost ancestral lands.

  • Sumatran tribe say lands stolen for palm oil
    • Jakarta Globe
    • 19 September 2011

    The Anak Dalam Sungai Beruang say the Wilmar Group subsidiary, Asiatic Persada, forced them off their ancestral homelands.

  • Palm oil fuels land grabs in Africa
    • Pambazuka
    • 15 September 2011

    As foreign investors descend on Africa to develop large-scale palm oil plantations, the survival of local people is being threatened as they lose control of the land and water on which they depend for their food production and livelihoods

  • Swiss giant Glencore may bid for KS Oils
    • Times of India
    • 13 September 2011

    The world's largest commodities trader Glencore International AG is evaluating a bid for KS Oils, a leading Indian edible oil firm that has recently been acquiring farmland in Indonesia

  • New frontier palm oil players look to RSPO
    • Reuters
    • 05 September 2011

    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

  • Cargill supplier linked to violence and home demolition in Indonesia
    • RAN
    • 29 August 2011

    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.

  • Investasi pertanian masih stagnan
    • Bisnis Indonesia
    • 22 August 2011

    Pengusaha China jajaki tanaman ubi jalar di Lampung

  • Indonesia turns back on Papua food bowl plan
    • Jakarta Globe
    • 15 August 2011

    After two years with little progress, the government is considering shifting the location of its planned food estate to East Kalimantan from Papua because of the availability of land.

  • Indonesia food security project threatens Papuan way of life
    • AlertNet
    • 05 August 2011

    Indigenous Papuans are at risk of further marginalisation and the forests on which they rely face destruction due to a project by the Indonesian government, activists say.

  • South Korea to expand overseas farming on rising food costs
    • Bloomberg
    • 10 July 2011

    Korea wants to secure a total of 380,000 hectares of overseas farmland by 2018, the agriculture ministry said in an e-mailed statement today. Priority countries include the Philippines, Cambodia, Ukraine, Indonesia and Russia.

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