Papua New Guinea

UN report critical of government response on SABL
- ActNow!
- 20 April 2016
The SABL land grab has resulted in over 5 million hectares of land being unlawfully taken from indigenous rural people and given to foreign corporations.
Government to endorse unlawful SABL land grab
- ActNow!
- 04 April 2016
The government is to ignore the SABL Commission of Inquiry and endorse the SABL land grab by converting the unlawful leases into registered land and issuing new leases to companies.
Great Timber Heist emphasizes failure to cancel SABL leases
- ActNow!
- 17 February 2016
An explosive new report exposing tax evasion and financial misreporting by logging industry in PNG only emphasizes the need to cancel the unlawful Special Agricultural and Business leases (SABLs).
Protecting community lands & resources in Africa: Grassroots advocates’ strategies & lessons
- Namati
- 20 January 2016
Book provides a variety of ingenious, creative, and practical strategies for proactively confronting the forces that undermine community land and natural resource tenure security in Africa.
West Sepik against SABLs
- Act Now
- 04 December 2015
Youth leaders in the West Sepik Province spent the last 3 months of 2015, spreading the word on the importance of protecting their customary land and how land has been taken throughout the country through Special Agriculture Business Leases (SABL).
PNG government indicating logging for agricultural development will continue
- ABC
- 11 November 2015
Logging operations are only ramping up, and exploiting special leases, meant for the development of agricultural projects, to clear forest on land belonging to customary owners.
PNG: Court rulings confirm SABLs null and void
- Act Now
- 27 August 2015
Since 2007 there have been five reported legal cases in which the validity of Special Agriculture Business Leases (SABL) has been challenged through the Courts, all leases was declared null and void.
Will KLK proceed with the corrupt Sepik oil palm deal?
- Act Now
- 24 August 2015
PNG’s Minister for Trade, Commerce and Industry sign a Heads of Agreement that would make KLK an equity partner in development of 37,000 ha oil palm project in East Sepik’s Special agriculture Economic Zone(SEZ).
Foreign company to develop 30,000 hectares for oil palm
- Sun Star
- 03 August 2015
New Britain Palm Oil Ltd (NBPOL), a palm oil company operating in Papua New Guinea and in Solomon Islands is looking at Mindanao as its next area for expansion.
Call for spotlight on PNG land grab at APEC Forest meeting
- Radio NZ
- 29 July 2015
Papua New Guinea NGO ActNow! says 5 million ha were illegally acquired from traditional land holders and APEC Ministers need to know this.
SABL issue explained in new fact sheet for communities
- Act Now
- 08 July 2015
Even though the Commission of Inquiry into the land grab has found the SABL process was flawed, land grabbing continues. Many communities are still not aware of what SABL is and how customary land is being stolen.
PNG aims to become major rice exporter
- China Daily
- 29 June 2015
PNG's Minister for Agriculture says "the best way to do agriculture in Papua New Guinea is large-scale, mechanized" as small scale agriculture is "no longer feasible."