Asian palm oil: limited supply
- FT
- 18 Apr 2011
Industry giants such as Malaysia’s Sime Darby and Singapore’s Olam and Wilmar International are scrambling for fresh space in equatorial Africa.
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Palm oil giants target Africa in 'land grab' following Indonesia deforestation ban
- Ecologist
- 25 Mar 2011
Indonesia's move to bring in a two-year moratorium on new palm oil plantations has seen agribusiness giants like Sime Darby switch expansion plans to Cameroon, Ghana and Liberia.
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Terres accaparées, paysans en danger
- CNCD
- 15 Mar 2011
Un dossier réalisé par l’équipe d’Altermondes et reproduit dans demain le monde, mars-avril 2011
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Felda in talks to buy 90,000ha land to grow rubber and oil palm
- The Star
- 07 Mar 2011
Felda Holdings, the world's largest estate owner, is in talks to buy up to 90,000ha of land across South-East Asia
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Sime Darby on lookout for land
- Reuters
- 24 Feb 2011
The world's biggest listed palm oil firm, is on the lookout for more land, in a move sure to fuel the global grab for arable land as food prices remain high.
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Political dynamics of land-grabbing in Southeast Asia: Understanding Europe's role
- TNI
- 20 Jan 2011
The European Union is a significant player in the widespread occurrence of land-grabbing in Southeast Asia; both through its corporate sector and public policies.
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Induk KUD & investor asing rintis perkebunan
- Bisnis Indonesia
- 19 Jan 2011
Induk Koperasi Unit Desa (Induk KUD) bersama sejumlah investor dari sejumlah negara akan menandatangani kesepakatan kerja sama (MoU) untuk mengeksplorasi tanaman kelapa sawit, jarak dan singkong.
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Indonesian gov't to expand farmland by 2 million hectares
- Xinhua
- 11 Jan 2011
The government also invites foreign investors to develop animal husbandry, aimed at securing livestock supplies.
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Rejection of the MIFEE continues
- Tempo
- 25 Nov 2010
The Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE) Program, a project which the government claims will be able to bring economic and social welfare for the Papua people, was rejected by the local people themselves.
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Singapore's Wilmar eyes Aust's Sucrogen for Papua sugar project
- Asia Pulse
- 29 Oct 2010
Wilmar is eyeing Indonesia's Papua Province for a massive cane growing project.
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The struggle to prevent land grabbing and forest destruction in Indonesia
- TNI
- 25 Oct 2010
Interview with Elisha Kartini of the Indonesian Peasant Union
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Papua in Merauke reject Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate
- Indigenous Peoples Issues
- 06 Oct 2010
We support the position adopted by the Ha Nim indigenous people and their sympathisers who reject the MIFEE project on their land because it poses a threat to the right to life of the local communities and urge the Indonesian state – SBY – to repeal the MoU about MIFEE.